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How Amazon Thinks About Auto Insurance for Delivery Service Partners
Amazon runs an auto insurance program for its delivery service providers, but if those DSPs choose to buy their insurance from competitors instead, Amazon is fine with that. In fact, Amazon might ...
Amazon Urged to Improve Severe Weather Procedures After Deadly Warehouse Collapse
Regulators are calling on Amazon to improve its procedures for dealing with severe weather like hurricanes and tornadoes that could threaten workers at its warehouses dotted across the country. The ...
Labor Board Judge Rules Amazon Must Reinstate Fired Warehouse Worker
A judge has ruled Amazon must reinstate a former warehouse employee who was fired in the early days of the pandemic, saying the company "unlawfully" terminated the worker who led a protest calling ...
COVID Underscores Lack of Whistleblower Protections
Originally posted on Stateline, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts. Inside a partially completed Amazon warehouse here, workers last summer walked on conveyor belts four stories high without ...
Amazon Reportedly Trying to Settle Two EU Antitrust Investigations
Amazon is seeking to settle two EU antitrust investigations to stave off potential hefty fines and orders to change its business practices, people familiar with the matter said. The European ...
Amazon Appeals Record $865M Penalty for Alleged Violation of EU Data Protection Rules
Amazon.com Inc. appealed a record 746 million-euro ($865 million) penalty for allegedly violating the European Union's tough data-protection rules. The appeal was filed at the Luxembourg ...
Amazon Reaches Settlement With Employees Allegedly Fired for Criticizing Work Conditions
Amazon.com Inc and the U.S. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) said on Wednesday the company had reached a settlement with two former employees who alleged they were fired last year for ...
Amazon Will Start Selling Cover for UK Businesses Via Broker
Amazon.com Inc is to start offering insurance to small and medium-sized UK business customers, the technology giant's first foray into business insurance in the country, broker Superscript said on ...