That's great, but these benefits shouldn't come from the workplace. > sick As a contractor, you don't need to report time to the company you didn't work due t

That's great, but these benefits shouldn't come from the workplace. > sick As a contractor, you don't need to report time to the company you didn't work due to being sick. If Google is requiring this, they are statutory employees. That is the real problem. Providing 'benefits' to 'contractors' is just a bandaid. Either the benefits ought to be provided through other means, or the contractors are really employees and that needs to be fixed.