More than 140,000 Amazon drivers to be repaid nearly $60 million in alleged withheld tips

Over 140,000 Amazon drivers are being repaid astir $60 cardinal successful tips that the institution allegedly withheld from them, the Federal Trade Commission announced Tuesday.

The FTC and Amazon reached a colony successful February, with the institution agreeing to wage much than $61.7 million, the afloat magnitude the tech elephantine allegedly withheld which volition beryllium utilized by the FTC to compensate Amazon Flex drivers.

The FTC said successful February that Amazon Flex Drivers were told they would beryllium paid $18 to $25 an hour, with galore statements saying things specified arsenic "you volition person 100% of the tips you gain portion delivering with Amazon Flex."

"Rather than passing on 100% of customers' tips to drivers, arsenic it had promised to do, Amazon utilized the wealth itself," Daniel Kaufman, acting manager of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, said successful February.

The FTC is sending retired 139,507 checks and 1,621 PayPal payments to drivers. The mean cheque for Amazon Flex drivers included successful the colony volition beryllium $422, but 19,980 drivers volition person checks for much than $600. The highest magnitude going to a azygous Amazon Flex operator is $28,000.

Amazon Flex is antithetic from the regular Amazon transportation drivers. Flex drivers are independent contractors who tin download an app that volition let them to prime antithetic orders they privation to deliver, and they request a idiosyncratic conveyance similar a 4-door, mid-sized sedan oregon larger vehicle, specified arsenic a truck, to marque the deliveries.

Flex drivers present goods and groceries ordered done Amazon Prime Now and AmazonFresh programs, according to the FTC. These let for customers to extremity their drivers.

Affected drivers should deposit oregon currency their checks earlier Jan. 7, 2022.

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