Amazon
stated Saturday it will improve beyond regular time pay for employees in its US
warehouses among March fifteenth and May 9th, Reuters reviews. Instead of the
usual time-and-a-half they acquire now for extra time, Amazon warehouse workers
inside the US will receive double their hourly rate for every additional time
hour worked in a given workweek, the company stated.
The
assertion comes an afternoon after 4 US senators despatched a letter to AmazonCEO Jeff Bezos asking him to respond to questions on how the corporation is
maintaining its warehouse workers safe in the course of the coronavirus
outbreak. The senators sent the letter
days after the primary US-based totally Amazon warehouse employee tested
high-quality for COVID-19, the disorder caused by the virus.
Amazon
warehouse workers have said that the uptick in orders— as people hunker down at
home to prevent the unfold of coronavirus— has brought about many to turn out
to be concerned for his or her fitness. 24 warehouse workers and transport
drivers, who described crowded places of work, a loss of screenings for
symptoms, a scarcity of cleaning components, and a pace that made sanitation
hard.
