SEATTLE — Seattle’s Office of Labor Standards (OLS) says thousands of Amazon Flex drivers will soon receive payments after the agency and the company reached a nearly $3.8 million settlement tied to the city’s gig-worker protection laws.
Amazon Flex is a network company that contracts with drivers to deliver items across several Amazon business lines. The company has thousands of workers in Seattle and hundreds of thousands worldwide. Drivers use their own cars to deliver Amazon packages.
OLS had investigated Amazon Logistics, Inc. — also known as Amazon Flex — over allegations that the company didn’t provide required premium pay or paid sick and safe time (PSST) to many of its delivery workers. According to the agency, Amazon Flex only offered those benefits to drivers delivering groceries or food, not to those handling package deliveries from Amazon warehouses…