Amazon to pay $61.7M to settle FTC charges it withheld tips from Flex drivers
The e-commerce giant is paying up over charges it did not pay out customer tips to drivers for Amazon Prime Now and Fresh. Listen - 02:45
Drivers for Amazon Prime Now and Fresh may have had some tips withheld by the e-commerce giant. Sarah Tew/CNET
Amazon will pay more than $61.7 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it didn t pay its Amazon Flex drivers the full amount of tips owed to them, the agency said on Tuesday. The FTC says that money represents the full amount that Amazon allegedly withheld from drivers over a two-and-a-half-year period. The government agency says that Amazon stopped its behavior only after becoming aware of the FTC s investigation in 2019.
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Amazon is opening a new fulfillment center in Italy, as well as a new sortation center. Both will be operational by the fall in time for the holiday shopping season.
“Amazon is further increasing the size of its Italian logistic network to meet increasing customer demand, expand its product selection and support a growing number of independent small businesses selling at Amazon using Fulfillment by Amazon warehousing and delivery,” the company announced.
The new fulfillment center will be located in Agognate, a hamlet of Novara municipality in Piedmont region, and will create up to 900 jobs within three years of launch of the site. The new sortation center will open in Spilamberto.
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