The article doesn't do this directly, but to push back against the implicit message:<p>Google directly employs 2 orders of magnitude more people than live in my suburb. It is meaningless - completely meaningless - to hold up one example of a subcontractor as some sort of general case. Especially without context, there is probably more to the story that didn't make the article.<p>Also my condolences to this woman if her parents named her Tuesday.
The article's author, Jeff Elder, writes:<p>> Now, I don’t know about you, but I have three reactions to this:<p>Now, I don’t know about you, but I have one reaction to this: you're a newspaper reporter, Jeff. State the facts; I don't care about your opinion.
Regardless of whether you think people should be paid extra for working on a holiday, or whether you think its right that a union is helping this person, what should be <i>immediately obvious</i> is that firing someone for questioning a policy is completely wrong.
Do people typically get paid more for working on holidays? I can't say I've heard of that but I've also always been salaried, where extra work is not directly compensated.
I know it's not unheard of, but i have never in my career been offered extra money for working holidays.<p>I think it's the right thing to do, both for the worker and for the business (don't want grumpy workers on the holidays), but yeah if you throw a tantrum (?) for not getting a perk, then that sounds ungoogley.