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Originally Posted by Rizla
So Amazon contributes nothing towards their minimum-wage contract employees' pensions at the moment, nor will they in the future. They're really good at avoiding tax, too.
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Amazon pays the contracted Agency (probably about 2-300%) of the workers pay rate.
The Agency
provides employee administration (Payroll (checks), Payroll TAXES, HR, and other
benefits (varies widely by contract).
Besides seasonal peaking, Contract employees allow companies to get around (USA) laws that require the SAME benefits to EMPLOYEES doing the SAME JOB. The Employee may get 3 weeks vacation, full medical. The contract worker at the next desk,
zip (Well they do get a pay check
that they may not otherwise get.).