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August 23, 2019 10:00 am

Amazon Will No Longer Use Tips To Pay Delivery Drivers' Base Salaries

Amazon is ending its practice of using customer tips to pay its Flex drivers' wages, according to a report by the Los Angeles Times and confirmed by The Verge. From the report: The practice came under fire when it was revealed back in February that Amazon (along with other delivery services like Instacart and DoorDash) were using customer tips to pay delivery drivers their base pay, letting the corporations in question save money at the expense of compensating their workers. Now, Amazon confirms that the initial minimum payment for each delivery will come entirely from Amazon, with driver's tips going directly to the driver on top of that -- i.e., the almost universally understood intent of how tips should work in the first place, where they're a bonus for a specific person on top of their base pay from the company for which they work. "Amazon will always contribute at least $15 per scheduled hour to driver pay, and often more, based on location and demand," says Amazon spokesperson Rena Lunak. "As always, for deliveries with tipping opportunities, drivers will receive 100% of the tips." The difference now is that the tips will be in addition to that base pay, instead of being part of it. The new payment policy is set to start today, the company confirmed. In an email to The Verge, Amazon clarified that it would be contributing a minimum of "at least $15-$19 per scheduled hour, depending on location," -- seemingly down from the original promise of $18 to $25 that Amazon Flex's site used to offer, although it's unclear how much of that old number came from Amazon and how much was from worker's tips. For its part, Amazon does say that it's "raising" its minimum contribution to those new numbers, which would imply that it previously contributed less than $15 an hour before -- again, depending on the location. Amazon declined to say what its minimum contribution was previously. The news comes after DoorDash is still pocketing workers' tips almost a month after it promised to stop.

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