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Re:Brutal life working in Amazon warehouse by CamelCaseName on Monday November 27, 2017 @01:03PM (#15789457)
If the government were to offer PTO for employees below a certain income threshold to learn new work-related skills, would that help lift people out of these situations?

Or would such a system be 1. too invasive and 2. abused, either by companies or the employees.

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Re:Brutal life working in Amazon warehouse by colechristensen on Monday November 27, 2017 @01:11PM (#15789540)
That's a weird way to do it, and would tend to subsidize employers for questionable benefits. Tax incentives for employer tuition reimbursement makes more sense.

Instead there should be programs to pay people minimum wage + tuition to attend community college for in-demand-career related degrees.

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Re:Brutal life working in Amazon warehouse by krapp on Monday November 27, 2017 @04:23PM (#15791561)
>Instead there should be programs to pay people minimum wage + tuition to attend community college for in-demand-career related degrees.

Amazon has a program like that. Unfortunately, it's only for AAS, and they only pay partial tuition.

What Amazon doesn't seem to have is a program to help people grow within Amazon, beyond FC work. There are tons of in-house resources, video tutorials, etc for training that employees simply can never access because they don't have the time.

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Re:Brutal life working in Amazon warehouse by TheHegemon on Monday November 27, 2017 @01:41PM (#15789873)
> Tax incentives for employer tuition reimbursement makes more sense.

Just when you thought tuition costs couldn't go any higher...

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Re:Brutal life working in Amazon warehouse by CamelCaseName on Monday November 27, 2017 @02:01PM (#15790092)
Perhaps large employers could negotiate better rates?

Sounds like a great way to increase offer acceptance rates too.

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