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A year ago, Tara Jones, an Amazon warehouse worker in Oklahoma, cradled her newborn, glanced over her pay stub on her phone and noticed that she had been underpaid by a significant chunk: $90 out of $540.
The mistake kept repeating even after she reported the issue. Ms. Jones, who had taken accounting classes at community college, grew so exasperated that she wrote an email to Jeff Bezos, the companys founder.
Im behind on bills, all because the pay team messed up, she wrote weeks later. Im crying as I write this email.
Unbeknown to Ms. Jones, her message to Mr. Bezos set off an internal investigation, and a discovery: Ms. Jones was far from alone. For at least a year and a half including during periods of record profit Amazon had been shortchanging new parents, patients dealing with medical crises and other vulnerable workers on leave, according to a confidential report on the findings. Some of the pay calculations at her facility had been wrong since it opened its doors over a year before. As many as 179 of the companies other warehouses had potentially been affected, too.
Amazon is still identifying and repaying workers to this day, according to Kelly Nantel, a company spokeswoman.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/24/technology/amazon-employee-leave-errors.html
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)I would think the latter to be more likely.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)And will they repair damage to employees' credit ratings, if any? Of course not!
marble falls
(57,063 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)If all they do is repay the wages, I believe that is hardly enough. These folks have suffered and should be compensated for that suffering. If Amazon does take steps to accommodate that suffering then I would call it an error that was corrected. If all they do is pay the lost wages, then I believe it is wage theft.
marble falls
(57,063 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)There are honest errors that occur. Happened to me at my work place a few times over the years. They were corrected the next week or in some cases the next day.