Retailers have just had their best holiday season in six years but for retail workers the post-holiday come down has been brutal. “It was a public execution.”Amazon hired 100,000 seasonal employees for its peak season during the holidays, a mass temporary hiring common throughout the retail industry. She was scheduled for four hours, then zero hours the next week, 9.5 hours the week after, and next week only 8.5 hours. Her hours were reduced this month from 24 hours a week to 15 hours one week, and 23 hours other weeks. A June 2018 survey of 6,000 Walmart employees found 69% of workers wanted to work more hours than they were scheduled.

Source: The Guardian January 24, 2019 10:52 UTC