Amazon will at the end of May scrap the $2 hourly raise it introduced for warehouse workers coming in during the coronavirus pandemic. The $2 raise has been in effect since mid-March alongside increased overtime pay, and was originally slated to run through to the end of April but the company extended it. Amazon has seen a massive spike in demand since the beginning of the year with customers stuck in their homes. The firm reported a 26% revenue spike in its first-quarter financials to $75.5 billion. It has had to balance this surge against the safety of its warehouse staff — with limited success. In the US workers have gone on protests, partly fuelled by the firing of vocally critical employees. In one case worker Christian Smalls was fired after leading a walkout at his Staten Island warehouse.
— source businessinsider.in | May 14, 2020
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