Hundreds of thousands of drivers who deliver Amazon packages don’t work directly for the e-commerce giant; instead, they’re employed by third-party logistics companies, called delivery service partners. Last year, Amazon ended a contract with a delivery company in Palmdale, California, after dri...
As of December 2020, it is not hiring delivery drivers as employees.[156] 【参考译文】亚马逊直接雇用员工在其仓库、大批量分销中心、“亚马逊Hub Locker+”有人值守地点以及配送站工作,配送站是司机取件的地方。截至2020年12月,亚马逊没有招聘快递司机作为雇员。[156] Rakuten Intelligence estimated that in ...
Amazonshould be considered a “joint employer” of some of its contracted delivery drivers, a regional director for the National Labor Relations Board said Wednesday. The NLRB was reviewing two unfair labor practice charges filed in January, concerning Amazon’s treatment of some drivers at an Atl...
“The lack of rest and meal breaks was part of the culture for Amazon delivery drivers,” said Seattle driver Henry Abreu in the lawsuit. “It was just the way it was. Amazon assigned us a certain number of packages that we were required to deliver in the time allotted ...
In social media groups for Amazon warehouse workers and delivery drivers Thursday, workers shared stories of when they were forced to pee in a bottle. "We should all tweet pictures of our piss bottles to Amazon," one wrote. More information:©2021 The Seattle Times....
It’s unclear how Amazon’srecent introduction of AI-powered monitoring cameraswill change this dynamic between the Delivery Service Partners and their drivers. One could imagine that having a camera in the van would make it easy to determine if employees were turning off other monitoring dev...
Here’s what I mean: Your people are your most important asset. Amazon has somewhere close to 275,000 delivery drivers who take packages from its distribution centers to customers’ front doors. Understandably, Amazon exerts tremendous control over how those drivers operate, how the...
For now, delivery companies are trying to work around the more blatant racism their employees experience. They give drivers routes where they’re less likely to stand out. They report incidents of pulled guns and other intimidation to Amazon. At a training session conducted at an company fa...
The practice came under fire when it wasrevealed back in February that Amazon(along with other delivery services like Instacart and DoorDash) were using customer tips to pay delivery drivers their base pay, letting the corporations in question save money at the expense of compensating their worker...
Amazon delivery service partners are asking for professional cleaners to sanitize vehicles at the end of each shift. Currently, drivers are provided with cleaning supplies and asked to sanitize the vehicles themselves. Amazon hasrefused to disclosethe number of employees who have t...