Oct 26, 2021

Unpacking the HR mistakes that flipped over the lives of some Amazon workers

Union votes at Bessemer, Alabama's, Amazon facility were set to be counted on March 29. Patrick T. Fallon/Getty Images

Also, Tesla has now become a trillion-dollar company after rental car company Hertz ordered up 100,000 Teslas to add to its fleet.

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How HR mishaps left Amazon workers underpaid and out of jobs

by David Brancaccio , Rose Conlon and Meredith Garretson

Oct 26, 2021

Amazon workers lost pay and occasionally jobs due to mistakes by the company's employee leave system.

After Tara Jones, an Amazon warehouse employee in Oklahoma, reported money missing from her paycheck, an internal investigation revealed the problem had been going undetected for over a year.

Joseph Rushmore for The New York Times

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