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| Topic | Amazon fined for stealing tens of millions in tips from its delivery drivers |
| Shablagoo 02/14/21 5:18:55 PM #1: | Amazon agreed on Tuesday to pay $62 million to the Federal Trade Commission to settle charges that it withheld tips to delivery drivers over a two-and-a-half year period, in a case that highlights the federal governments increased interest in gig-economy workers. The F.T.C. said in an announcementthat Amazon had promised its Flex delivery drivers that they would receive 100 percent of all customers tips. But starting in 2016, the F.T.C. said, Amazon secretly lowered the hourly delivery wages, which were advertised at $18 to $25, and tried to mask the smaller wages by using customer tips to cover for the smaller hourly pay. The net effect was that the contract workers received smaller overall take-home pay, the agency said. The practice wasnt disclosed to drivers but the Flex drivers noticed the compensation reductions and began to complain. Amazon stopped the practice in 2019, after it became aware of the F.T.C.s investigation, the agency said. The company settled without admitting wrongdoing. https://web.archive.org/web/20210202201351/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/02/business/amazon-tips.html --- "If you wanna grow your business you need to exploit more." ~Austin_Era_II "Out of those two? Racist for me... easily." ~Vicious_Dios ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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