Amazon warehouse managers are muscling employees to save money.

[Abraham Andres Luna]

VTO does more than reduce basic payroll overhead. It’s also indirectly tied to yet another acronym called variable compensation pay (VCP)—the source of employee bonuses. VCP is comprised of two components, the first of which is correlated to the facility’s overall productivity. How those calculations are made was unclear to every worker I spoke to. In any case, it’s not a metric any individual has much of control over, nor did any worker report their facilities hitting productivity on any regular basis. The other component is attendance, which is halved with one use of UPT, and negated entirely after two. Improperly marked VTO can unfairly limit or remove these bonuses, and involuntary but correctly marked VTO still reduces them, since VCP is a percentage of earned pay. Fewer working hours means a lower bonus. According to a former associative, “there was not a week where there was 40 hours like they advertised.”

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VTO = Voluntary Time Off
UPT = Unpaid Time Off

 

[Becky]

Worker rights in the US are so bad, employers (especially large ones) shouldn't be allowed to get away with this kind of behaviour

 

[Abraham Andres Luna]

Yea I guess the labor laws won't change until congress gets paid to do it