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Today, warehouse workers have a lot to worry about during this COVID-19 pandemic. Even before the current pandemic, some warehouse workers had considerable cause for concern about their workplace safety, especially if they worked for Amazon. Reports looking at numbers...
Before the recent pandemic, Amazon had come under fire for various workplace safety incidents, including one in Joliet, Illinois, involving allegations that the company delayed emergency medical treatment for a worker who suffered a heart attack and died in early...
The “gig economy” is where more and more people are finding work. This allows for greater flexibility for workers who do not want to be tied to one job or who have to balance earning a living with family obligations. However, this allows employers to avoid providing...
According to an Amazon spokesperson, an worker at Joliet's Amazon fulfillment center has recently tested positive for the novel Coronavirus (SARS - CoV2). It is understood that the employee last worked on March 18 and is in quarantine. The worker's identity remains...
Jeff Bezos can probably take credit for changing the way people shop online more than any single person. While the road to Amazon's dominance as a retailer certainly has been fueled by a spark of ingenuity, that same road has also been filled with many strategies...
Meanwhile, Amazon is looking to hire some 350,000 new workers to deal with the backlog of orders and has slowed down delivery in the COVID-19 era. Click here to read the full article from USA TODAY.
For every 100 workers at Amazon facilities, nearly 11 were injured on the job in 2018, making it three times as dangerous as employment across the private sector, and twice as dangerous as warehouse work in general, according to the study from a coalition of more than...
Editor's note: The original article appeared in the Atlantic technology section on June 25, 2018. I’m sure I looked comical as I staggered down a downtown San Francisco street on a recent weekday, arms full of packages—as I dropped one and bent down to pick it up,...
Many major national and international entities use complex corporate structures to attempt to minimize or avoid civil liability, especially in today’s more complicated “gig” economy. They may have layers of subordinates or franchisees which, they will argue, are...
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