Faced with ever more questions about its practices, especially from its own employees, as the Amazon Employees for Climate Justice group demonstrated, the tech giant decided on 10 October to publish a statement “to provide customers, investors, policymakers, employees, and others our views on certain issues”, underlining in the introduction that “there is much room for healthy debate and differing opinions”. Amazon, which employs 630,000 people across the globe, has taken a stance on various issues – such as on the minimum wage, climate change, the importance of inclusion and diversity, and the tax regime – and encourages public and private actors to follow suit.
US minimum wage considered too low. The federal minimum wage is regularly a topic for debate in the US. Currently, it stands at $7.25 per hour and has not increased since 2009. Viewed as too low, many US states and companies have opted instead to propose a minimum wage of $15 per hour. Amazon joined this movement in November 2018 and said in its 2018 annual report that it had “raised [its] minimum wage to $15-an-hour for all full-time, part-time, temporary, and seasonal employees across the...
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