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Unfortunately the workers don’t really have a case against Google here. Don’t get me wrong - “vendor” companies are parasites and often serve only to avoid paying full benefits to those whom companies would otherwise need to hire as full-time employees. But there’s decades of established law that says they are not, in fact, employed by the contractor. Without changing the law, vendor employees won’t be considered transitively employed by the contractor by any court.