Google will not pay remaining parental or medical depart for laid-off staff

Google is going through pushback from a few of its 12,000 laid-off employees. CNBC has learned that over 100 ex-staffers have fashioned a “Laid off on Go away” group asking Google to pay for the total leaves they had been authorized to take earlier than the January twentieth layoff announcement, together with parental, medical and caregiver depart. Whereas the corporate mentioned in early 2022 that it was extending all parental depart to 18 weeks for full-time employees (24 weeks for start mother and father), it instructed terminated staff that they’d get 16 weeks of severance pay plus two weeks for each added yr of employment, with paid time without work included.

The group members say the method has not solely impacted their parenting plans (together with those that had lately given start), however has additionally disrupted healthcare. Some former staff inform CNBC they misplaced entry to Google’s in-house medical care the day they obtained their layoff notices, denying them entry to ongoing in-person remedy. Google has supplied digital physician’s appointments, however has in any other case requested affected folks to seek out alternate options.