MEXICO CITY: After six months of shifts moving boxes at an Amazon warehouse near Mexico City as a contract worker, Jaime Hidalgo believed job security and brighter prospects beckoned when he received the company’s “blue badge” making him staff. The conditions described by the former Amazon workers could be grounds for an inspection by labour officials, he said. Amazon said it had created at least 10,000 direct and indirect jobs in Mexico since opening its first warehouse in 2015. More than two-thirds of Amazon’s Mexico warehouse workforce is outsourced to contractors – known informally as a “shadow workforce” – workers estimated. Two former Amazon workers – including 37-year-old Rafael Bobadilla – said they were required to sign blank resignation papers by the recruitment agencies before starting work.

Source: The Star April 28, 2021 08:48 UTC