About two and a half years before this letter, Amazon set a $15 minimum wage for its hourly employees.
Resolved true The record shows it happened or was so.
Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?
Said for an organisation they lead or work for; it counts on both records.
What would count as true or false
Takes 'about two and a half years' before the 15 April 2021 letter to mean about mid-2018 to early 2019. True: Amazon's official announcement or effective date of a $15 minimum wage for its US hourly employees falls in that window, roughly between April 2018 and February 2019. Mostly true: the minimum was set in that window, but a minor detail differs, for example it applied only to US employees including temporary and seasonal workers, or the announcement and effective dates differ slightly. Mixed: not used, as this is a single event. Mostly false: Amazon set a $15 minimum, but more than about six months outside the 2.5-year mark, or only for a narrow subset of hourly employees. False: Amazon had not set a $15 minimum wage for hourly employees before April 2021.
Set before the research began.
Evidence (3)
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E1 Amazon Raises Minimum Wage to $15 for All U.S. Employees, Including Full-Time, Part-Time, Temporary, and Seasonal Amazon.com, Inc. (press.aboutamazon.com; distributed via Business Wire) · 2 October 2018 Own record
“Amazon today announced it is increasing its minimum wage to $15 for all full-time, part-time, temporary (including those hired by agencies), and seasonal employees across the U.S.—effective November 1.”
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E2 Amazon to boost minimum wage to $15 an hour for all employees Retail Dive · 2 October 2018
“Amazon will raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour effective November 1, 2018, the company has announced. The move affects all of the company's full-time, part-time, seasonal and temporary employees in the U.S., including those hired by agencies.”
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E3 Amazon Raises Minimum Wage to $15 for All U.S. Employees, Including Full-Time, Part-Time, Temporary, and Seasonal Amazon.com, Inc. (press.aboutamazon.com; distributed via Business Wire) · 2 October 2018 Own record
“"We listened to our critics, thought hard about what we wanted to do, and decided we want to lead," said Jeff Bezos, Amazon Founder and CEO.”
Reasoning
Amazon's press release (E1) and an independent Retail Dive report (E2) show Amazon announced on 2 October 2018 a $15 minimum wage for all US full-time, part-time, temporary and seasonal employees, effective 1 November 2018. That is about two and a half years before the 15 April 2021 letter, within the April 2018–February 2019 window in the criteria. The coverage matches the criterion's description of US hourly employees.
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Jeff Bezos, “About two and a half years before this letter, Amazon set a $15 minimum wage for its hourly employees.” (said 15 April 2021). Verdict: resolved true. Reliability API, claim c_3ac1241c93d5, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_3ac1241c93d5
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