Amazon Japan has notified its package delivery drivers that it is lowering compensation rates from April 5 and stated it will terminate contracts if employees do not accept the changes.
For many drivers, the rate changes the company notified them of meant a pay cut, and a number of workers have since reached out to Japan’s Fair Trade Commission.
Among them is a 33‑year‑old man working as a delivery driver in the Kansai region. The job pays him about 100,000 yen ($628) per month, accounting for roughly half of his monthly earnings.
You know what company would collapse in minutes without the drivers doing their job?
Not Amazon, their store is small potatoes for them. Their real money maker is amazon web services.
$628 would cover 2/5th of my rent, Amazon is scum
I’d be curious to see how that stacks up against the Kansai cost of living, since rent and other costs will obviously be different from the rest of the world. I am also too lazy to do any proper research. Oh well.
That’s just over one month of healthcare in the US, assuming you don’t use any of it.
