Starting November 1st, Amazon will pay all its US employees a minimum wage of $15 an hour in a move that e-commerce giant expects to impact more than 250,000 full- and part-time employees and 100,000 seasonal workers. Amazon has also said that it will be lobbying for an increase in the Federal minimum wage, currently set at $7.25 an hour.
Amazon has been facing an increasingly severe backlash over the treatment of its warehouse workers. Senator Bernie Sanders had previously taken aim at the company’s median salary of around $28,000, claiming that one in three Amazon workers in Arizona are on public assistance. A recent Amazon SEC filing put the median salary at $28,446 (implying half its workers are earning less). A $15 hourly salary for...
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