Apple Shifting Security Team From Contractors to Full-Time EmployeesApple has decided to hire the majority of its day-to-day security staff in Silicon valley as full-time employees, a company spokeswoman confirmed to the
San Jose Mercury News. Many of the security guards that Apple has hired in the past as contractors will become part of the company's expanded in-house security team and receive the same benefits as other employees, including full health insurance, retirement contributions and a leave of absence for new parents.
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Apple will continue using contractors as security guards for special events, such as the upcoming <a href="
http://www.macrumors.com/2015/02/26/apple-event-march-9/" title="Apple Sends Invites for ‘Spring Forward’ Media Event on March 9">"Spring Forward" media event[/url] at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on March 9th. Apple is believed to have begun <a href="
http://www.macrumors.com/2015/02/28/yerba-buena-apple-watch-demo/" title="Apple Likely Building Apple Watch Demo Area at Yerba Buena Center">constructing an extension[/url] on the Yerba Buena Center over the weekend, possibly as an Apple Watch demo area, and security guards wearing "Apple Security" shirts were spotted monitoring the premises.
"We will be hiring a large number of full-time people to handle our day-to-day security needs," the spokeswoman told the San Jose Mercury News. "We hope that virtually all of these positions will be filled by employees from our current security vendor and we're working closely with them on this process."
Apple has faced increasing pressure to provide individuals who cook, clean and monitor security for the company with the same benefits as other employees. Local union United Service Workers West staged a protest on Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, California in December over complaints that its security contractor Security Industry Specialists treated workers poorly and that many positions were part-time.
Other service workers in Silicon Valley are also fighting for better wages and benefits.
The Wall Street Journal reported that a group of 158 bus drivers working for Compass Transportation, which provides shuttle service for Apple, eBay, Genentech, Yahoo and Zynga, voted on Friday to be represented by local union Teamsters Local 853 in negotiations with Compass over fair working conditions.
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