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In the early morning hours of Jan. 3, 2022, Velez was on a break when she was forced off the road by a box truck driven by Jordan Sannicola, a contractor on his way to pick up an Amazon shipment ...
Thousands of delivery drivers filed legal claims against Amazon on Tuesday, alleging the company’s classification of them as independent contractors instead of employees has led to unpaid wages ...
In April 2023, 84 drivers were voluntarily recognized by Battle Tested Strategies (BTS), a DPS contractor in Palmdale, California. Shortly after, on 28 April, they ratified their first collective bargaining agreement, which would raise their wages from $19.75 an hour to $30 in September. However, BTS's contract with Amazon expires in October.
In April 2014, the company reached a class-action settlement of $800,000 (equivalent to $1.03 million in 2023) [6] with drivers in Massachusetts who accused the company of misclassifying them as independent contractors. [11]
In the United States and Canada, the term typically refers to independent contractors who hire out and drive their own semi-trailer trucks.In trucking, an owner-operator is a self-employed commercial truck driver or a small business that operates trucks for transporting goods over highways for its customers. [1]
Amazon is investing $2.1 billion to boost delivery drivers' pay. The investment will raise drivers' pay to nearly $22 per hour, a 7% increase on average from last year. Amazon has been facing ...
The distinction between independent contractor and employee is an important one in the United States, as the costs for business owners to maintain employees are significantly higher than the costs associated with hiring independent contractors, due to federal and state requirements for employers to pay FICA (Social Security and Medicare taxes) and unemployment taxes on received income for ...
The pay increase brings the average driver wage up from $20.50 in 2022, with the minimum pay for Amazon drivers now ranging from $19.50 to $25.25 per hour, depending on location.