{"id":67783,"date":"2018-10-02T08:44:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T15:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=67783"},"modified":"2018-10-02T08:44:21","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T15:44:21","slug":"amazon-raises-minimum-wage-to-15-for-all-u-s-employees-including-full-time-part-time-temporary-and-seasonal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=67783","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Raises Minimum Wage to $15 for All U.S. Employees, Including Full-Time, Part-Time, Temporary, and Seasonal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seattle, WA… Amazon today announced it is increasing its minimum wage to $15 for all full-time, part-time, temporary (including those hired by agencies), and seasonal employees across the U.S.\u2014effective November 1. The new Amazon$15 minimum wage will benefit more than 250,000 Amazon employees, as well as over 100,000 seasonal employees who will be hired at Amazon sites across the country this holiday.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe listened to our critics, thought hard about what we wanted to do, and decided we want to lead,\u201d said Jeff Bezos, Amazon Founder and CEO. \u201cWe\u2019re excited about this change and encourage our competitors and other large employers to join us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amazon\u2019s public policy team will also begin advocating for an increase in the federal minimum wage.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will be working to gain Congressional support for an increase in the federal minimum wage. The current rate of $7.25 was set nearly a decade ago,\u201d said Jay Carney, Senior Vice President of Amazon Global Corporate Affairs. \u201cWe intend to advocate for a minimum wage increase that will have a profound impact on the lives of tens of millions of people and families across this country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Employees will continue to receive Amazon\u2019s industry-leading benefits, including:<\/p>\n

Comprehensive healthcare, including medical, dental, and vision coverage
\nCompany-paid life and disability insurance
\nUp to 20 weeks of paid parental leave
\n401k matching
\nCareer Choice, which pre-pays 95% of associates\u2019 tuition for courses in high-demand fields, whether those jobs are at Amazon or another company
\nCareer Skills, which trains hourly associates in critical job skills like resume writing, how to communicate effectively, and computer basics
\nWith more than 575,000 employees worldwide, Amazon was named #1 on LinkedIn\u2019s 2018 Top Companies list, ranks #1 on The Harris Poll\u2019s Corporate Reputation survey, and #2 in Fortune\u2019s World Most Admired Companies. To learn more about working at Amazon, click here.<\/p>\n

To find out more about the new Amazon$15 minimum wage, click here.<\/p>\n

About Amazon<\/p>\n

Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com\/about and follow @AmazonNews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seattle, WA… Amazon today announced it is increasing its minimum wage to $15 for all full-time, part-time, temporary (including those hired by agencies), and seasonal employees across the U.S.\u2014effective November 1. The new Amazon$15 minimum wage will benefit more than 250,000 Amazon employees, as well as over 100,000 seasonal employees who will be hired at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-featured","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/amazon_logo_RGB.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}