Contractor slashed Facebook janitors' paid holidays and blamed the tech giant, but reversed …

A contractor said this week it is restoring holiday pay to Facebook Inc. janitors after questions from MarketWatch about why hundreds of workers lost more than half their paid holidays during the COVID-19 pandemic.Facebook FB, +1.32% janitors who kept their jobs but worked sporadically throughout the coronavirus pandemic went back to full-time, on-site work in April as the social media giant began to open its offices with limited capacity. Although several janitors said they are grateful to still be employed, they wondered why they had lost some perks, specifically a half-dozen paid holidays.  Like many other hourly workers at large companies in Silicon Valley and elsewhere, the janitors do not work for Facebook directly, but are employed by a contractor. In this case, the contractor is ABM Industries Inc. ABM, +0.61%, which sent janitors at Facebook’s Menlo Park, Calif., campus a letter around Thanksgiving informing them that they would be paid for only five holidays a year effective December 2020, the minimum required in their union contract and down from the 11 days previously offered. The memo, reviewed by MarketWatch, suggested the change was ordered by Facebook: “While Facebook has been generous enough to pay everyone since March throughout this…
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