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How much cash is on the table in Amazon’s pay rise announcement?
Amazon is set to give their US workers a pay rise, a massive move for America’s biggest employer.
It’s some great news to employees of the company, with the increase pay to be between 50 cents to $3 per hour.
The increase more than half a million workers on its fulfilment, delivery and sorting teams.
And the raises will take effect between May and June head of a federal hearing over a defeated unionisation drive.
Darcie Henry, a vice president in Amazon’s human resources group, said Henry the company was hiring for “tens of thousands of jobs” across its logistics operations in the US.
The hiring spree coincides with a rapid expansion of the company’s warehousing and distribution unit to deal with the pandemic-fuelled surge in online orders and cut delivery times. The company took on 500,000 new workers in 2020 alone, bringing its total workforce to nearly 1.3 million people worldwide.