Amazon Japan has notified its package delivery drivers that it is lowering compensation rates from April 5 and stated it will terminate contracts if employees do not accept the changes.
For many drivers, the rate changes the company notified them of meant a pay cut, and a number of workers have since reached out to Japan’s Fair Trade Commission.
Among them is a 33‑year‑old man working as a delivery driver in the Kansai region. The job pays him about 100,000 yen ($628) per month, accounting for roughly half of his monthly earnings.
Extend Embrace Extinguish but now it’s being used on the gig economy market
Now I’ve seen everything capitalism has to offer
From the very start the entire purpose of the gig economy was to evade employment legislation and thus treat workers the same as they were treated in the 19th century before they fought for and got legally enshrined worker rights in the 20th century.
everything capitalism has to offer so far…
…and then it got worse…
…and then it got worser…
…and then it got worse-est…
And then it ended.