Paid Time Off MattersA (slow) progress report

The more things change... the more they stay the same

NYT May 28, 2019, by Daisuke Wakabayashi

Google shadow workforce: temps who outnumber full-time employees 

 

LA Times December 7, 1997 by Leslie Helm (later Editor of Seattle Business Magazine)

Microsoft testing limits on temp worker use  (abuse)

 

"And earlier this year, about 90 receptionists were fired and told that Microsoft's clerical needs would henceforth be handled by an outside provider, with which they could enlist. Along with their jobs, those employees lost their Microsoft benefits and stock options.

"We were overpaying them," said Bob Herbold, Microsoft's chief operating officer."

From C-Net January 2002 about Herbold's compensation, who was the highest paid employee (more than twice what Gates was paid) or Seattle Times, September 30, 2007 by Michele Matassa Flores.

Microsoft's chief operating officer Bob Herbold received $1.18 million in salary and bonuses last year, and another $3 million from selling stock.

Google Shadow Workforce : temps who outnumber full-time employees

Excellent article by Daisuke Wakabayashi in the New York Times about the exploitation of temporary workers by Google.

No vacation nation, revised

Announcing here the revised report from the CEPR, revising their reports of 2007 and 2013: 

Nearly 1-in-4 Americans Receive No Paid Vacation or Holidays

WASHINGTON - The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) first published a study comparing paid vacation time in the US to other rich countries in 2007 and again in 2013. In a newly revised report released today, No-Vacation Nation, Revised (PDF) reports that the United States continues to be the only advanced economy that does not guarantee its workers any paid vacation time or holidays.