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They post facts about working conditions. Quoting someone else: "Tweet: Hello! Amazon does pay their employees minimum wage - any less would be illegal One thi
by cm2012 8y ago
They post facts about working conditions. Quoting someone else:
"Tweet: Hello! Amazon does pay their employees minimum wage - any less would be illegal One thing that often gets overlooked are the employee benefits that Amazon provides for all employees - Health insurance, 401K, career/financial counseling.
Amazon pays minimum wage is a factual statement. Minimum wage is not a good wage for the job but its still factual. You either offer them health insurance, 401K, counseling or you dont. I would say that's also a factual statement. Whether or not you agree with it is your decision but actually having transparent facts is refreshing these days."
- coldtea 8y ago"Transparent facts" from the "ambassadors"? If only. They can speak of "employee benefits that Amazon provides for all employees" because "all employees" only includes a tiny part of their warehouse workers -- those that are actually employees. The rest? "Technically, Amazon does not hire the workers in its warehouses. Instead, temporary staffing agencies with names like Integrity Staffing Solutions handle the process of interviewing and hiring workers in Amazon's distribution centers. This is a method by which Amazon insulates itself from issues involving unemployment insurance and worker compensation; officially, the temps don't work for Amazon, they work for the temp agency." Among tons of other hellish practices (like micro-measuring their position with GPS trackers, forbidding bathroom breaks, arbitrary raised quotas, demerit points for discipline, and so on...