{"id":34621,"date":"2021-04-29T15:11:04","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T22:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=34621"},"modified":"2021-04-29T15:11:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T22:11:04","slug":"50-cents-for-your-troubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=34621","title":{"rendered":"50 CENTS FOR YOUR TROUBLES?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon announced Wednesday night that it will give over half a million of its workers a raise but maintain its $15 per hour minimum wage.<\/p>\n<p>The e-commerce giant plans to hike pay starting in mid-May by between 50 cents to $3 an hour as part of an effort to hire more people into its customer fulfillment, delivery, package sorting and specialty fulfillment teams.<\/p>\n<p>The raises will cost over $1 billion in incremental pay, Amazon executive Darcie Henry said in a blog post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is on top of our already industry-leading starting wage of at least $15 an hour and the more than $2.5 billion that we invested last year in additional bonuses and incentives for front-line teams,\u201d Henry wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon announced Wednesday night that it&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34622,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34621\/revisions\/34622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}