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alleging the company failed to provide workers of its JFK8 Staten Island facility with a safe work environment. “Health and safety are our top concerns and priority, and we’re continuing to double down on that,” says Adam Sedo, senior manager of corporate communications at Amazon.
To that end, Amazon hasin more than 150 coronavirus-related changes to its warehouses, including stocking sites with 100 million masks, 34 million pairs of gloves, 48 million ounces of hand sanitizer and 2,298 handwashing stations. Frontline workers have seen pay increases of $2 an hour, in addition to a one-time, thank-you bonus—the total of which exceeded $500 million—and access to a $25 million relief fund meant to alleviate financial distress due to the pandemic. If an employee tests positive for Covid-19, he or she will receive up to two weeks of additional paid time off, and all employees have 100 hours of emergency child and adult care available to them. As the demand for Amazon’s services have surged, so too has its hiring. “Since March, we’ve hired more than 175,000 people to help continue to serve customers,” Sedo says. “They started as seasonal, and over the summer we converted 125,000 of those into permanent roles.”Home Depot has been busy hiring, too. Earning marks in 23 states, including New Mexico, where it places in the No. 1 spot, the home-improvement chain has seen its business boom as more Americans spend time in their own backyards. Its employees will reap the rewards: “Our business performance will result in very positive profit sharing—which we call ‘success sharing’—and the store associates will all share in the success of their units,” says Tim Hourigan, executive vice president of human resources at Home Depot. “Take care of associates, they’ll take care of customers and everything else will take care of itself.” When it comes to taking care of associates, Home Depot has investedto help employees at this time, including weekly bonuses of $100 and 80 hours of paid time off for full-time hourly associates . Thermal scanners and plexiglass partitions have been installed in stores to safeguard associates, but even still the company hasto Covid-19. “Our hearts go out to their families,” Hourigan says. “We reflect what you’d expect to see in the general population.” Also ranking in 23 states, Target has taken similar precautions, and while there have been reports of employees testing positive for Covid-19, none have died to date. In addition to permanently raising its hourly minimum wage to $15 an hour and gifting one-time bonuses of $200 to frontline workers, Target has ensured that all employees—even those not on its healthcare plan—have free access to virtual doctor visits and mental health resources. Although these benefits were put in place in response to the pandemic, they’re not out of character for the employer, which
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