This morning, the tech news site The Information reported that Facebook would soon pay its staff a $1,000 bonus to help its employees working from home under emergency conditions induced by the novel coronavirus. But the generous move comes with a catch: Facebook, which as of last December held over $50 billion in cash, will provide no such payout for the tens of thousands of contract workers who keep the company’s apps and sites running.

“For contract workers, we are sending them home and paying them in full even if they are unable to work — which as you can imagine is much more meaningful than a one off payment.”

“The $1k is for full time employees who are working from home,” a Facebook spokesperson told The Intercept. “For contract workers, we are sending them home and paying them in full even if they are unable to work — which as you can imagine is much more meaningful than a one off payment.” When asked how Facebook — which earned over $20 billion in revenue last quarter — determined that a one-off payment of $1,000 would be less meaningful to its contract workers than its full-time staff, the spokesperson sent the same statement again.

Facebook announced that it would “be working with our partners over the course of this week to send all contract workers who perform content review home, until further notice.” Contractors at the tech giant have recently complained of contradictory, confusing safety guidance surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic, with disparities between what Facebook is telling employees working on contracts and what the corporations employing the contractors are saying.