Asking for partner who works at Google as a contractor. My partner is a contractor at Google. Google sent out an email that contractors would still be paid in the midst of coronavirus. My partner’s team requested remote access and they’re still waiting for it. My partner’s work can be done without remote access anyway, so him and his whole team worked from home. However, the Accenture manager who manages the team is mandating everyone to be in the office tomorrow and if they won’t come to the office, they have to take PTO. Another Accenture team that sits near my partner’s team is all WFH because the other Accenture manager allowed them to WFH. Is there anything my partner and his team can do? Is it legal for Accenture to mandate they come jnto the office or they won’t get paid? Any advice?
They act like contractors aren’t human beings. What is wrong with that manager? Karma will bite him in the ass.
Seriously. Humans are humans. It’s not like coronavirus will get FTEs and not contractors. It affects humans.
Ask your partner, in long term find better employer than the body shop. That seems insane if client company is already willing.
He was FTE but recently got laid off because his company was acquired. He took the Google contract because he needed a job ASAP. Accenture is being shitty
Just take the PTO. The manager will either realize it or actually contract the virus after a few days.
Is this happening in India ?
In the Bay Area
If the government prohibits gatherings the employer has to comply. Right now in WA gathering of 250 or more are banned. That also means offices and meetings. Your State may be different but you get the gist.
We are in the Bay Area and our county has actually banned gatherings of 250+ as well. Is this something we can bring up?
So just checked with my partner, apparently their office is pretty empty because other contractors and FTE employees are WFH. So now their office would technically only have 30 people instead of the normal 250+
That's against Google's policy -- they're very serious about keeping all Google workers at home. Are there any public internal forums they can flag it in?
Unfortunately no. Google makes contractors talk to their employers not Google HR
This is very unfortunate ☹️. Google is being unreasonable .. at the end the contractors are getting work done for Google itself. They should think about all their employees.
This is against policy, not sure why the manager is requesting in office. Accenture allows consultants to be remote and I know for a fact that Amazon, Google, etc., is offering VPN access to consultants. Hope this helps.
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