Labour protections make it virtually impossible to dismiss people in some countries without prior consultations with employee interest groups
“We have been working carefully and individually through each country where reductions are taking place to fully adhere to local legal requirements, which vary per location, are complex, and take time,” a Google spokesperson said in response to questions from Bloomberg.
Employees recently set up a cross-country Google works council for EU countries, which includes the United Kingdom and Switzerland. It is expected to be operational in about six months, and will be a powerful collective voice in future consultations. According to Waley, this represents “a big change,” as the company will have to give employees much more advance notice of reorganizations.
More than 170,000 full-time tech workers are employed on the continent and in the United Kingdom by Amazon, Alphabet and Meta, with software engineers often earning salaries that are half as much as their counterparts in the United States.
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