Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees
The article states the minimum will apply to seasonal and part time employees - but AFAIK Amazon employs a lot of people on so called 1099 contracts - the nyt coverage seems to imply those will be unaffected:<p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/business/amazon-minimum-wage.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/business/amazon-minimum-w...</a><p>Only example I've on hand is this ft article from 2013:<p><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/ed6a985c-70bd-11e2-85d0-00144feab49a" rel="nofollow">https://www.ft.com/content/ed6a985c-70bd-11e2-85d0-00144feab...</a><p>"A global employment agency called Randstad, which had handled the recruitment process for Amazon, was also to arrange his shifts, manage him on the warehouse floor and pay him his near-minimum wage. After three months, if he had performed well, he could apply to be an Amazon employee, though there was no guarantee he would succeed."<p>Still, I seem to recall reading about extensive use of similar contracts at Amazon, more recently too.