Amazon has promised to pay over $500 million in bonuses to its front-line employees in the U.S. for working during the holiday season.
According to Amazon, full-time operations workers will receive $300 bonuses and part-time workers will get $150 for the time period from Dec. 1 to Dec. 31.
“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, SVP of Amazon Worldwide Operations, said in the post. In June, Amazon spent $500 million on one-time payments to its front-line employees and partners.
This comes amid the serious backlash that Amazon has been facing over the last few months as U.S. lawmakers and unions believe the company isn’t properly protecting its staff from the virus.
Back in April, Amazon employees took part in a massive strike to fight for better safety standards and more hazard work pay amid the pandemic.
Meanwhile, Daria Nicolodi, Italian actress and mother of leading`me too’ activist Asia Argento, has died at the age of 70, her family said on Thursday.
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“Rest in peace beloved mummy,’’ Argento wrote on Instagram, without giving a cause of death.
“Without you I miss the ground under my feet, and I feel I have lost my only true point of reference,” she said.
Renowned horror movie Director Dario Argento, Nicolodi’s ex-partner and father of Asia, announced the death separately to the ANSA news agency.