Amazon to Pay Front-line Workers a Special Holiday Bonus
November 27 2020 - 9:41AM
Dow Jones News
By Maria Armental
Amazon.com Inc. will pay front-line employees a special holiday
bonus as the e-commerce giant responds to a surge in online sales
during the coronavirus pandemic that's driving record results.
"Our teams are doing amazing work serving customers' essential
needs, while also helping to bring some much-needed holiday cheer
for socially-distanced families around the world," Dave Clark,
senior vice president of world-wide operations, wrote in a blog
post.
U.S. operations employees working for Amazon from Dec. 1 through
Dec. 31 qualify for a bonus of $300 for full-time employees and
$150 for part-time employees, Mr. Clark said. In all, the special
bonus will total more than $500 million, he said.
Amazon, which has faced criticism from workers over its response
to the virus, earlier paid a similar one-time bonus for front-line
workers and delivery partners.
In October, the tech giant said more than 19,000 employees had
tested positive for the new coronavirus and said it continued to
ramp up its in-house Covid-19 testing program with capacity
reaching 50,000 tests a day across 650 sites by November.
Amazon reported a profit of $14.11 billion on $260.51 billion in
net sales for the first nine months of the year and projected $112
billion to $121 billion in sales this quarter. In 2019, Amazon
generated a $11.59 billion profit on $280.52 billion in sales.
Write to Maria Armental at maria.armental@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
November 27, 2020 09:26 ET (14:26 GMT)
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