A group of workers—some of them full-time employees and others contractors—has embarked on a campaign to get Google to extend its sexual harassment protections to TVCs. (Photo: Shutterstock)

In a victory for thousands of protesting employees, Google earlier this month overhauled the way it handles allegations of sexual misconduct. But those changes largely left out a group that makes up over half of the search giant’s workforce: temporary, vendor and contract workers, a group Google refers to as TVCs.

Now, a group of workers—some of them full-time employees and others contractors—have embarked on a campaign to get Google to extend protections to TVCs, people with knowledge of the matter said. They asked not to be identified because they didn’t want to jeopardize their jobs. For starters, some workers recently set up an internal mailing list to discuss the issue and options for what to seek from Alphabet Inc.’s Google, one of the people said. To kick off conversation, the first post included a link to a July Bloomberg story on the size and role of the company’s contractors, this person said.

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