A person rides a Google Inc. bicycle in front of the company's headquarters in Mountain View, California, U.S., on Wednesday, April 25, 2018. Alphabet Inc. is pushing efforts to roll back the most comprehensive biometric privacy law in the U.S., even as the company and its peers face heightened scrutiny after the unauthorized sharing of data at Facebook Inc. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
Google will require contracting companies it does business with to give employees health care, parental leave and other benefits. The decision comes after months of activism from Google staff and contractors asking for equal treatment.
The new policy will require health benefits, sick leave, a US$15 (RM61) minimum wage, paid parental leave and US$5,000 (RM20,412) a year for education, a Google spokeswoman wrote in an email.
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