More than 140,000 Amazon drivers will receive nearly $60 million in withheld tips after the company reached a settlement with the the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Tuesday. The funds will serve as reimbursement for tips that Amazon allegedly illegally withheld from drivers over a two-and-a-half year period between 2016 and 2019, the FTC said in a statement. The FTC brought a lawsuit against Amazon and its subsidiary, Amazon Logistics, in 2021, claiming that the e-commerce company had not fully paid tips to drivers in its Amazon Flex program. Drivers in the Amazon Flex program use their own vehicle to deliver packages and groceries ordered through programs such as Prime Now and AmazonFresh, allowing customers to give the drivers a tip. The lawsuit claimed that the company regularly advertised that drivers in the program could earn anything between $18–25 per hour for delivering goods to customers and that Amazon told drivers they would receive 100 percent of the tips they earned …