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Amazon Is Raising Some Workers' Pay Further, Adding Bonuses After Controversy (bloomberg.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Amazon is sweetening the pay for some of its longtime warehouse workers after employees criticized the loss of bonuses and stock awards as part of the company's pledge to boost all wages to at least $15 an hour. The world's largest online retailer grabbed headlines last week with its minimum-pay pledge -- followed by concerns from veteran workers who feared their compensation would actually decline because the company also eliminated bonuses and stock awards. Amazon said any workers already earning $15 would get raises of $1 per hour. Now, some of those employees are learning their hourly raises will actually be $1.25 an hour. Additionally, Amazon is introducing a new cash bonus of $1,500 to $3,000 for tenure milestones at five, 10, 15 and 20 years. Workers with good attendance in the month of December will also get a $100 bonus, according to the company. "All hourly Operations and Customer Service employees will see an increase in their total compensation as a result of this announcement," Amazon said in a statement. "The significant increase in hourly cash wages effective Nov. 1 more than compensates for the phase out of incentive pay and future (stock) grants."
Just because workers comp is like that where you live, don't assume its like that for most of the U.S. My wife used to work at a nursing home where they chronically understaffed. While lifting a patient that should have been a two person lift (but they only had one person for that wing), my wife hurt her back. Two separate doctors recommended getting an MRI but workers compensation required preapproval and they refused to approve it. They also refused to approve other procedures strongly recommended by the doctors. To this day she has back trouble that multiple doctors have said was avoidable if she had been treated properly. Unfortunately, our health insurance refused to cover it as it fell under worker's compensation.
They must like it since they donâ(TM)t go elsewhere.
Not really. They're gone one way or another in 18 months on the average, either by job hopping, perhaps internally, or by being fired. Much of Amazon is all about putting in that work only to pad your resume for the next job, vacation between jobs, and then repeating the process till they have built up a resume to get the career they want. At least, that is how the people I've known at Amazon have treated it.