New York City is pushing Amazon to treat its delivery drivers as employees, which could change pay, protections and delivery costs for the person at your door.
New York City wants Amazon to count the people who deliver its packages as Amazon employees. Many of those drivers look like Amazon workers in every way, but they are paid by outside delivery companies instead.
Fast Company profiles one such driver, Luc Rene. Every workday he puts on a shirt and pants with Amazon's logo and heads to a distribution center. He climbs into a van with the logo on its side. The packages carry Amazon's swoosh smile. At each door he yells out, "Amazon."
Many drivers like him are paid by outside delivery companies, not by Amazon directly. The city's push targets that gap between who directs the work and who employs the worker.
If the push works, the person at your door may get better pay and protections. Delivery costs and rules could also shift. For anyone who orders from Amazon, or runs a business that depends on fast delivery, the way these drivers are classified is worth watching.
The driver in an Amazon uniform may not work for Amazon, and New York City wants that to change.
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