For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Amazon said it’s removed its waitlist for online grocery deliveries and pickup in most cities, a change that will allow more customers to get food delivered to their homes during the coronavirus crisis. The e-commerce heavyweight a month …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Amazon says it’s getting closer to normal operations.  In late March, the online retailer pumped the brakes on new shipments of nonessential items to its facilities and pushed back deliveries by as much as a month as it struggled to keep up with …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Tim Bray, a prominent software engineer and a vice president at Amazon, said Monday he quit in protest following the firings of several activist employees at his former company. Amazon in recent weeks fired six workers, including four warehouse employees and two tech …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. New York’s attorney general said Amazon may have violated the state’s whistleblower laws last month when it terminated a warehouse employee who led a protest on workplace safety. In a letter to Amazon last week, state Attorney General Letitia James’ office said its …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Amazon is extending its increased hourly pay and double overtime pay, offering warehouse employees in the US and Canada $2 extra an hour through May 16. The online retail giant said Friday the higher wages will now cost the company just under $700 …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Amazon, which continues to endure intense criticism for its treatment of warehouse workers during the coronavirus pandemic, has taken another step deeper into the controversy. The company last Friday fired another warehouse employee who protested against the company’s working conditions. Gerald Bryson, an …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. In his annual shareholder letter, Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos said that a next step for the company could be regularly testing its employees for the coronavirus, even if they show no symptoms. “Regular testing on a global scale, across all industries, …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Amazon has fired two tech workers after they spoke out publicly against warehouse conditions during the coronavirus pandemic. User experience designers Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa, both active members of the advocacy group Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, had offered match donations up …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Amazon on Monday said it will hire 75,000 more workers to help it fill a massive surge in orders during the coronavirus pandemic. The announcement comes just after the company completed a hiring blitz of 100,000 additional employees that it announced less than …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Amazon this week has been promoting one of its latest coronavirus safety efforts, saying it’s now made millions of face masks available to its employees and delivery partners throughout its worldwide logistics network. But some of these workers said Thursday that only a portion …