NJ Spotlight News: Does Amazon’s Delivery Model Harm Workers?

In our spotlight on business report tonight:

Amazon’s mega Prime Day sale officially ends tonight, but there could also be a dark side to shopping with the retail giant.

A new brief from the National Employment Law Project sheds light on how the company meets that faster than ever delivery speed at the heart of its business model.

It’s by using an army of Amazon Flex drivers.

These are independent contractors who use their own vehicles to deliver packages in the final leg or last mile of the delivery process.

According to the report, that Uber-like system exploits workers and subjects them to illegal and unbearable conditions, having a ripple effect on the rest of the delivery sector.

Maya Pinto is the report author.

She’s a senior researcher and policy analyst at the National Employment Law Project, and she joins me now to explain.

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Watch the full story at pbs.org.