Online retail giant Amazon is offering term time only contracts for parents, grandparents and guardians of school-age children.
Workers at all of the US firm's fulfilment centres in the North East - including Follingsby Park at Gateshead, Integra 61 in County Durham, and Darlington - are being offered the contracts which guarantee time off for the six-week summer break, as well as the two-week Easter and Christmas holiday periods. Amazon says the contracts will later be rolled out to its 'sort centres' and delivery stations later this year.
As part of what it says are efforts to support family needs on the back of employee feedback, Amazon is also launching a flexible part-time contract for a minimum of 80 hours a month which lets employees pick the shifts which suit their needs including part-day or full-day, day or night, weekday or weekend. That contract has been trialled at five fulfilment centres and is now being offered at a further seven sites.
