• Amazon is being sued by Washington, D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine for allegedly stealing more than $1 million in tips from delivery drivers to subsidize its own labor costs.
• The suit claims that between 2016 and 2019, “Amazon misled consumers to believe that they were paying tips directly to their delivery drivers through Amazon’s online delivery portal, and that those tips were increasing driver pay by the consumer-designated amounts.”
• The company is instead accused of using the funds “to pay a portion of the amounts Amazon had already promised its drivers—thereby subsidizing Amazon’s labor costs.”

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