The dream of the $15 minimum wage was finally realized among Amazon employees after the company caved to mounting pressure and implemented it company-wide on Nov. 1. But according to a new report, the improved wages aren't working out as many employees had hoped at Amazon's Whole Foods grocery store chain.
The Guardian reported Wednesday that employees at Whole Foods, which Amazon purchased back in 2017, have experienced a dramatic drop in schedule shifts since the raised wages were introduced.
Along with the new $15 minimum wage for the entry-level positions, some higher-level Whole Foods employees have also enjoyed a $1 to $2 increase in hourly wages, the outlet notes. It all sounds good — until employees' schedules are taken into account. Since the wage increase in November, Whole Foods employees say they've experienced "widespread cuts that have reduced schedule shifts across many stores, often negating wage gains for employees," The Guardian reports.
The employees, speaking on condition of anonymity "for fear of retaliation," revealed to the outlet that they've seen an average of about a 30% reduction in hours per week for part-timers and about a 10% reduction for full-timers.
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lets see, everyones pay goes up
ReplyDeletein order to keep operating expenses the same you either raise prices, or cut back hours
no business is going to sacrifice profit
And, no one saw this coming? Dolts! Just keep in mind this one point: With every dollar that the entry-level wage increases, and everyone else's wages remain the same, the less buying/earning power that everyone else has.
ReplyDeleteMaybe socialism will come about through wage leveling after all.
Whole Foods has to be Union
ReplyDeleteSounds like we'll just have to increase the minimum wage to 30 an hour then and they can just go out of business and allow another to take over it's monopoly.
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