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The world is watching the dedication and courage of Amazon workers hour by hour each day through this crisis. Amazon management has clearly taken notice of their importance and provided wage increases. Still, without more safety protections at these warehouses, Amazon...
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...
The first loss of a Chicago police officer linked to COVID-19 will be considered an on-duty death, police leaders said Friday, giving the officer’s family access to special financial benefits. Interim Chicago police Superintendent Charlie Beck announced that decision...
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...
The Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission has announced that pursuant to the order of Governor J.B. Pritzker and the national pandemic of COVID-19 the Commission will be closed through the end of April. For more information and the full press release click here....
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...
The outbreak of the COVID-19 virus has left us all in unprecedented and uncertain times. On March 20, Governor J.B. Pritzker issued a statewide “shelter-in-place” order which requires all non-essential businesses to close and all non-essential employees to stay home....
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.
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