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In Amazon's dispatch centers (here in Saxony-Anhalt), employees should earn more in the future
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Amazon is introducing a starting wage of 12 euros gross in its German shipping centers.
In autumn 2022, this should then increase to 12.50 euros, as the company announced.
The wage increase is to apply from July 1st.
Amazon has been criticized by the Ver.di union for years because management rejects collective agreements.
But now the company is looking for employees: This year 5000 new positions are to be filled in all German areas.
Amazon now employs well over a million people worldwide; in Germany there are currently 23,000, 16,000 of them in logistics.
So far, the starting salaries for new logistics employees have been between 11.30 and 12.70 euros, with an average weekly working time of 38.5 to 40 hours.
For comparison: According to the trade union DPVKOM, the postal collective agreement that has been in force since the beginning of the year provides for an hourly wage of 12.35 euros for temporary workers, the monthly starting salary in the lowest wage group is just under 2067 euros.
Amazon emphasized that the workforce still received a number of additional benefits.
These include, among other things, bonus payments that are dependent on work performance, employee shares, life and occupational disability insurance and a four-digit training allowance for further training.
The aim was to become the best employer in the world, said Germany boss Ralf Kleber - and protested against criticism from Ver.di and others: Amazon is a fair employer.
nek / dpa
