President Joe Biden met on Thursday with a labor leader organizing Amazon.com Inc workers and with other worker organizers hours after U.S. Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders slammed the online retailer at a hearing on the company's labor practices.
President Joe Biden met on Thursday with a labor leader organizing Amazon.com Inc workers and with other worker organizers hours after U.S. Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders slammed the online retailer at a hearing on the company's labor practices.
A former Amazon.com Inc employee sued the online retailer on Monday, saying it wrongly fired her and demanded she repay wages after she contracted "long COVID." Brittany Hope, 29, a former brand manager for Amazon's (AMZN) fashion line The Drop in Manhattan, is seeking damages for alleged violations of federal, state and New York City disability laws.
A former Amazon.com Inc employee sued the online retailer on Monday, saying it wrongly fired her and demanded she repay wages after she contracted "long COVID." Brittany Hope, 29, a former brand manager for Amazon's (AMZN) fashion line The Drop in Manhattan, is seeking damages for alleged violations of federal, state and New York City disability laws.
Amazon.com Inc's objections to a landmark union election at a company warehouse in New York City justify a hearing that could overturn the result, a U.S. National Labor Relations Board official said. The online retailer has accused the NLRB's Brooklyn office of appearing to support the union drive and alleged that labor organizers intimidated workers to vote in their favor.
India's antitrust body launched raids early on Thursday against two top domestic sellers of online retail giant Amazon.com Inc, and some on Walmart's Flipkart, following accusations of competition law violations, sources told Reuters.
India's antitrust body launched raids early on Thursday against two top domestic sellers of online retail giant Amazon.com Inc, and some on Walmart's Flipkart, following accusations of competition law violations, sources told Reuters.
U.S. President Joe Biden took aim at online retailer Amazon.com Inc at a labor event on Wednesday after touting a new task force on worker organization "to make sure the choice to join a union belongs to workers alone." "And by the way, by the way, Amazon (AMZN) here we come.
U.S. regulators overseeing union elections at Amazon.com Inc's warehouses in New York and Alabama started tallying thousands of votes cast by workers in contests to determine whether to establish unions at each facility. If workers vote for a union, it would be a historic first for the online retail giant, which has long opposed any effort to organize its employees.
Target Corp (TGT) is preparing to let shoppers use food stamps to pay for online orders, following in the footsteps of Walmart Inc (WMT) and Amazon.com (AMZN), in a move that could help the nation's seventh-largest retailer gain market share among lower-income shoppers.
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