Amazon drivers include 15,000 claims saying they missed income

Two attorney companies that have been about 15,860 drivers of amazon Flex lies applied to the American Arbitration Association, where the same 453 cases were already being charged.

The Amazon Flex program, which was launched in 2015, registers drivers to deliver packages in their cars and a special app.

The company puts the job as a variable, temporary opportunity that allows people to earn more money in the hours they choose. Most drivers earn $18-25 an hour, according to Amazon, although how much they’re paid can depend on other factors, such as their location and how long it takes to complete a delivery.

Breeding applications posted on Tuesday California drivers, Illinois and Massachusetts, all who have limited legislation is the amount of controlling companies that can use independent contractors. Claims, collected within four years by lawyers Joseph Sellers and Steven Tindall, keep drivers organized as amazon employees instead of independent contractors, based on the current rules in the three provinces.

That change will allow FLEX drivers to collect unpaid salaries because Amazon pays only the predetermined amount of hours regardless of how long it takes to end deliveries, according to lawyers. Kuzophinde kuvumele abashayeli beFlex ukuthi bathole inkokhelo yesikhathi esengeziwe uma besebenza amahora angaphezu kuka-40 ngesonto futhi bathole imbuyiselo yezindleko ezihlobene nomsebenzi, njengezindleko zegesi nokuguga kwezimoto.

Gas and other vehicle costs are “a big expense for our customers,” Tindall said in an interview. He also said that one representative client was working for 7 weeks of days bringing Amazon during the holidays and has not been paid for more time.

In a fixed statement, the Amazon spokesman Baribeans revealed the benefits of the Flex program, said it provides “the people the opportunity to set their schedule and become their supervisors, while earning stakeholders.”

“We hear a lot of amazon Flex partners that they like the system fluctuations, and we are proud of the work they performed in the name of customers daily,” says Baribeau.

Tindall and Sellers say they have so far won seven of eight arbitration claims against Amazon that they have taken to court. The drivers who represented those cases were awarded a scale of $ 9,000 for damage.

Amazon’s business model for its contractors – made of independent contractors and external corporate entities allowing a company to avoid the integration of unions – facing the challenges from different rooms.

A bipartisan group of more than 30 US senators sent Amazon CEO Andy Jassy a letter last week asking for more information about the company’s relationship with thousands of private businesses that make millions of deliveries each day as part of the Amazon Delivery Service Partners program.

In March, the Wisconsin Supreme Court overturned a lower court ruling that declared Flex drivers workers — a decision that would have allowed them to be part of the state’s unemployment insurance program and entitled to unemployment benefits if they were laid off.

The Teamsters union, which wants to organize Amazon drivers, also filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board last year challenging how the company discriminates against some of its drivers.