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Can they prove they are needed if they weren't needed for over a year?
Google or Alphabet (or whoever) probably gave Cognizant a contract with an expiration date for YouTube Music. After a year of being on strike, the contract expired. Does that still count as firing?
Filling offices is a priority to companies. That priority is important enough to Google to not give the right to work remotely to these employees.
If Google's return to work policy affects them, then they were probably employees misclassified as a contractor.
https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/independent-contractor-self-employed-or-employee
Thanks for the link and info. So I tried to find something dealing with hiring agencies at irs.gov using
site:irs.gov
but couldn't find anything. For financials, shouldn't that fall under Cognizant since they are the ones paying the workers?It seems like they are employees of Cognizant instead doing YouTube Music work.
The NRLB ruled that they were partial Google employees last march. https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/3/23624631/alphabet-cognizant-joint-employers-youtube-music-workers-union
Thank you for the info.
I really wish these articles were more specific to what the job titles of these employees are.
https://www.nlrb.gov/case/16-RC-305751
If their contracts have a set expiration like what Google claims then, as temporary or season employees, they are excluded from being part of the Alphabet Workers Union-Communications Workers of America.