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The fact that the employees of the contractor companies ultimately work for only one company - Amazon - that means they should be treated like employees of Amaz
by fouc 3y ago
The fact that the employees of the contractor companies ultimately work for only one company - Amazon - that means they should be treated like employees of Amazon.
This is the same situation when independent contractors have only one client.
- kova12 3y agoWe all ultimately work for IRS
- fallingknife 3y agoWhy? A company hiring another company like this seems perfectly reasonable to me. There is no argument to be made about contractor vs employee status because the employees are still full time employees. Why should they have to be an employee of a single corporate parent? When companies like Amazon buy other companies and vertically integrate, people complain. When Amazon contracts with vendors instead, people complain too. I don't think there is any legitimate point to this and it's just "I hate Amazon."
- patmorgan23 3y agoYeah, you're just wrong. It's not like Amazon is doling out work to local delivery companies out of the goodness of their heart. They're setting up these companies as part of their DSP program to limit their liability. They're following the chicken industries playbook(which shouldn't be legal either) by requiring the DSP use Amazon equipment, with a loan from Amazon, pay back by revenue from Amazon. They're also using this as part of an anti-unionization strategy. One of their DSPs recently unionized and Amazon just cancelled their contract. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/24/amazon-delivery-service-partner-anti-union-california https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/24/amazon-deliv...