Amazon plans to give its frontline employees who help it through the busy
holiday shopping season a special bonus (via CNET). The company will give
full-time US employees who work December 1st through to December 31st an
extra $300 at the end of the year, while those who log part-time hours
over that same period will get $150. All told, the bonuses will total
$500 million, and build on the $500 million in one-time bonuses the
company gave out in June.——–
The announcement comes on the same day that Amazon warehouse workers in
15 different countries said they would protest for better pay and safer
working conditions on Black Friday. Whether a one-time $300 bonus, at a
time when Amazon is making record profits, will mollify the company—s
US workers is hard to say.– …
