“Amazon: European job killer”, what impact of e-commerce on the destruction of jobs in Europe?
Channel: Leïla Chaibi
Date: 09/03/2021

“For every job created by a big e-commerce company, six are destroyed in small businesses” discloses the independent study "E-commerce and jobs: heading toward job cuts"

The Covid-19 pandemic and its social and economic consequences have highlighted Amazon's expansion around the world. The lock downed world was suddenly dependent on a multinational corporation whose sprawling expansion seemed to have no limits. Everywhere, local merchants denounced the differential treatment imposed on them by the authorities.

The expansion of e-commerce, and particularly Amazon, is a rising debate. As the second largest employer in the USA, Amazon is blackmailing jobs in de-industrialised countries, particularly in the European Union. This independent study, analysing the development of e-commerce in France, Spain, Italy and Germany, shows that for every job created by a big e-commerce company, six are destroyed in small businesses! Since our society is moving towards more digitalisation, delivery and the dehumanisation of commerce, what is really behind the establishment of e-commerce giants? What is the impact of their development on employment in Europe? What are the regulatory strategies to oversee or even counter this model?

Sponsor of the study "E-commerce and jobs: heading toward job cuts", Leïla Chaibi, MEP, is organising a webinar to present the impact of e-commerce on job destruction based on the study's data. It will also look at the precarious and poor quality dimension of the "Amazon jobs" that are developing in the European Union.

European trade unionists, politicians and activists will bring their vision of the Amazon "European job killer".

With simultaneous interpretation to English, French, German, Spanish and Polish.

With the participation of :
Leïla Chaibi, MEP, France, The Left, study sponsor
Ano Kuhanathan, economist, Institut Rousseau, co-writer of the study “e-commerce and jobs : heading toward job cuts”
Florence Mouradian, economist, ex-OECD,  co-writer of the study “e-commerce and jobs : heading toward job cuts”
Magda Malinowska, Amazon worker, Poland
Maria-Eugenia Rodriguez Palop, MEP, Spain, The Left 
Pascal Meiser, MP, Germany, Die Linke
Alma Dufour, overproduction campaigner for Friends of the Earth, France
Nick Rudikoff, campaigns director of UNI Global