Tag: Amazon Employees

February 23, 2021

Amazon is offering employees thousands of dollars to permanently quit their jobs in a move which could impact its upcoming landmark union vote. Amazon has relaunched its “voluntary resignation programme”, which it has been running annually every February since 2014, […]

February 17, 2021

Amazon is being sued by New York’s attorney general who argued its extreme profit margins “came at the expense of the lives, health and safety of its frontline workers”. Letitia James officially filed a complaint at the New York Supreme […]

February 11, 2021

Amazon’s investors have demanded that the retailer stop interfering with its employees’ efforts to unionise. A group of more than 70 investors, which collectively hold around $20 billion in Amazon shares, have penned a letter calling for Amazon to end […]

July 11, 2019

This is not the first time Amazon has looked within its own ranks to try and unearth needed talent. In May, Amazon expanded its Delivery Service Partners program to current Amazon employees. The program provides $10,000 in funding for current […]

November 6, 2018

Just days after word spread that three cities were in “late-stage” talks to win the much-anticipated HQ2, this latest news has sent shockwaves, and has already led some media outlets to declare the months-long process to pick a second headquarters […]

January 15, 2018

NEW YORK—Walmart has a history of prioritizing the needs of its employees and will continue that legacy left by founder Sam Walton, said CEO Doug McMillon in a sit-down chat with NRF president and CEO Matthew Shay at NRF’s BIG […]

November 9, 2017

SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–(NASDAQ: AMZN)—Amazon today announced it now employs more than 17,500 veterans and military spouses across the United States, and plans to hire over 10,000 more by 2021. These full- and part-time roles are spread across the company—from the front-lines […]