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		jon-wood on Nov 11, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon drivers “work illegal hours” People not paying income tax and national insurance - they're classified as contractors, so technically they're responsible for their own deductions, but I'd be very surprised if many of them are actually paying anything.

Symbiote on Nov 11, 2016 [–]

That's what I was thinking of, but it's probably also that they simply aren't paying as much in wages.

The older companies at least pay minimum wage + overtime when needed.

Zombieball on Nov 11, 2016 | [–]

Makes a lot of sense. I didn't think about the forgone taxes. Probably quite significant.

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