Amazon US: $300 Holiday Bonus for Frontline Employees to Work for Entirety of December!

Amazon announced that it is offering a massive $300 Holiday Bonus this 2020 for frontline workers to report and render service for all the days of December, including the special non-working dates and rest days. The Holiday season would need all of the hands it needs for the massive surge of orders and work required by consumers and customers this Christmas 2020.

The largest e-commerce website and company in the world, Amazon, recently announced that it would be giving out as much as $300 as Holiday bonuses to each employee for working non-stop in the entire month of December. This agreement would be for full-time employees of Amazon US only, but part-timers would also get its bonus from the company.

Amazon US: Special Recognition Holiday Bonus for Frontline Workers

According to Amazon, Christmas 2020 would be a different holiday season, unlike the previous years because of the massive restrictions brought by the emergence of the global pandemic. With this in consideration, Amazon is offering special bonuses for its United States-based full time and part-time employees during December only.

The special recognition bonus by the company totals to more than $500 million for all its frontline workers who have worked with the company throughout the coronavirus. It is quite noting that Amazon initially faced several logistics issues during the early periods of COVID-19 that almost halted the company's entire operations.

The new bonus would add up to the existing holiday pays and rates of Amazon's employees that would be computed by the end of December and given the earliest by 2021. This incentive concerns both full time and part-time employees, with full-timers receiving $300, and part-timers receiving as much as $150 for the entire month's work.

Amazon US: Working Environment is not Safe

According to EnGadget, the holiday bonus would compensate for the risks and threats that employees face everyday while working on Amazon's warehouses that faced multiple controversies and concerns over its safety. The risk of COVID-19 alone was this year's largest threats, not to mention other elements that surround the work environment.

Moreover, employees also reported that there were numerous injuries that its employees suffered during October's Prime Day, giving Amazon more shade over the health hazard it upholds over its employees. Moreover, Amazon employees previously protested for additional protection during the emergence of the deadly airborne disease brought by the coronavirus.

During the start of October 2020, Amazon was also forced to show its records of reported COVID-19 positive cases which added up to a whopping 20,000 infections during the virus' first wave. The concern over Amazon's workplace environment increases along with the demands of the company to deliver more goods, especially during this COVID-19 pandemic, where everything relies on remote processes

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Written by Isaiah Alonzo