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The wage hike and work perks come as Amazon prepares for the busy holiday season and an upcoming Prime Day-like sale on Oct. 8-9. The fall sale is the third savings bonanza of its kind this year ...
Beginning this month, Amazon’s average starting pay for front-line employees in the U.S. will be bumped to an average of more than $22 an hour, up from roughly $20.50 an hour, the company said.
As the second-largest American employer [1] and the largest American e-commerce retailer with over one million workers and rapidly expanding, Amazon's warehouse labor practices have been subject to continued scrutiny, including reporting on work conditions, rising injury rates, worker surveillance, and efforts to block unionization.
Amazon, for instance, says it has 90,000 full-time U.S. employees at its fulfillment and sorting centers—but it plans to bring on an estimated 100,000 seasonal workers to help handle this year’s peak. Many of these seasonal hires come through Integrity Staffing Solutions, a Delaware-based temp firm.
The report cites an internal Amazon document, titled “2021 Prime Day Lessons Learned,” which states Amazon “met only 71.2 percent of its hiring target,” between May and June of 2021 ...
A Senate investigation into Amazon’s practices found that nearly half of the company's warehouse workers get hurt around the Prime Day rush.. The report comes out on the heels of this year's ...
Amazon employs 1.6 million people, and it can be a tough place to work. Here's what it's like to work at the world's largest e-commerce company.
That victory — the first ever for an Amazon facility in the U.S. — came as a surprise even to those sympathetic to the union’s calls for a $30 hourly wage and better working conditions for ...