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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,111 posts)
Thu Feb 4, 2021, 06:37 PM Feb 2021

Amazon to pay $62M for stiffing drivers on tips

Amazon will pay the Federal Trade Commission $61.7 million to settle allegations that it knowingly withheld customer tips from its drivers over a two-and-a-half-year period, the regulator announced this week.

On Tuesday, the FTC said the $61.7 represents the full amount Amazon is suspected of failing to pay its Flex program drivers in tips. The money will be put in an escrow fund to compensate the drivers.

“Rather than passing along 100 percent of customers’ tips to drivers, as it had promised to do, Amazon used the money itself,” Daniel Kaufman, the FTC’s acting director of consumer protection said in a statement. “Our action today returns to drivers the tens of millions of dollars in tips that Amazon misappropriated, and requires Amazon to get drivers’ permission before changing its treatment of tips in the future.”

Seattle-area Amazon drivers have complained their tips went missing in the past, including as recently as September, according to the Seattle Times. In that case, Amazon apologized and said it was working to resolve the problem.

https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2021/02/03/amazon-to-pay-for-stiffing-drivers.html

I wasn't aware of the Flex program till now. It seems all of the stuff I've ordered from Amazon has been delivered by FedEx or Amazon's own vans.

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Amazon to pay $62M for stiffing drivers on tips (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2021 OP
We can tip the Amazon drivers? Sedona Feb 2021 #1
Those that are part of the Flex program anyhow can be tipped Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2021 #2
I tip minimum $5 cash for any package or food delivery, including USPS. quaint Feb 2021 #4
Amazon Is So Poor It Needs To Steal From Drivers? Me. Feb 2021 #3
Infuriating! mountain grammy Feb 2021 #5

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,111 posts)
2. Those that are part of the Flex program anyhow can be tipped
Thu Feb 4, 2021, 06:44 PM
Feb 2021

It says as much on the website I linked to. Tips should go to the driver if that's the case.

quaint

(2,513 posts)
4. I tip minimum $5 cash for any package or food delivery, including USPS.
Thu Feb 4, 2021, 08:01 PM
Feb 2021

In a marked envelope clipped to my package bin.
Seems the very least I can do.

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