{"id":7707,"date":"2020-11-27T10:40:06","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T15:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=7707"},"modified":"2020-11-27T10:40:06","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T15:40:06","slug":"amazon-to-give-500-million-in-holiday-bonuses-to-front-line-u-s-workers-reuters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=7707","title":{"rendered":"Amazon to give $500 million in holiday bonuses to front-line U.S. workers | Reuters"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Amazon.com Inc said on Thursday it would spend more than $500 million on one-time bonuses for its front-line employees in the United States who are working the holiday season amid the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-health-coronavirus-amazon-com-idUSKBN28626Q\">Amazon to give $500 million in holiday bonuses to front-line U.S. workers | Reuters<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Full-time operations staff in the United States who are employed by Amazon from Dec. 1 to Dec. 31 will receive a bonus of $300, while those in part-time roles will get $150, the online retailer said\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aboutamazon.com\/news\/operations\/amazon-recognizing-front-line-employees-with-an-additional-special-bonus-this-holiday-season\">here<\/a> in a blog post.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sadly not a huge amount.\u00a0 If Jeff wanted did $5B, that&#8217;s $3000 per employee. That&#8217;d get him positive press and might help shut down the recent union agitation, NTTAWWT.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, seriously.\u00a0 WTF is he planning on doing with all the $Bs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon.com Inc said on Thursday it would spend more than $500 million&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[203,169,362,140],"class_list":["post-7707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-amazon","tag-covid-19","tag-jeff-bezos","tag-paul","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}