The United States Federal Trade Commission has announced that Amazon will be required to pay $61.7 million to settle charges that it withheld some customer tips from its Amazon Flex drivers over a two and half year period. According to the complaint against Amazon and its subsidiary Amazon Logistics, the company had advertised that it paid 100% of tips to drivers. But in reality, Amazon used the customer tips to cover the difference after it lowered the hourly rate, a change it didn’t inform drivers about, the complaint says. The FTC also alleged that Amazon didn’t stop this behavior until it became aware of the FTC investigation in 2019. About the complaint, it has to do with
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