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Originally Posted by HarryT
I don't know how it is in the US, but certainly in the UK, unpaid overtime, especially in professional jobs, is more the norm than the exception.
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This is interesting but not all that relevant to Amazon US warehouse jobs. Lots of these Integrity Staffing Solutions workers are part-time and hoping to get more hours. They are juggling multiple part-time jobs and thus need to know when their Amazon shift will end. Unpredictable work times plus low wages are an all too common American combination.
There was a time, in the US, when workers at a company as big as Amazon would almost surely be unionized. There would be little need to sue for something like this, because it would be handled through bargaining. In much of the EU, that's still true. But Integrity Staffing Solutions workers can't effectively unionize, because Amazon would then just contract with a different labor supply shop. To me, it's a difficult situation we have.
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Originally Posted by Hitch
It's AMAZON that has to pay, train, etc., the security employees to carry out the security tasks.
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It's Integrity Staffing Solutions that has to pay and train so many security employee because AMAZON wouldn't allow a staggered shift system to reduce the volume of workers hitting security at any one time.
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Originally Posted by Hitch
employees--the same ones that stole so much
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My guess is that Amazon executives put the search requirement into their worker services contracts from the start. Do you have any evidence that Amazon ever had a high, or even average, level of shrinkage by US retail standards?