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Amazon to pay California $500,000 for 'concealing' COVID cases among workers
Hat tip, Joe.My.God.
BUSINESS
Amazon to pay California $500,000 for ‘concealing’ COVID cases among workers
BY SUHAUNA HUSSAIN STAFF WRITER
NOV. 15, 2021 UPDATED 1:24 PM PT
Amazon has agreed to pay $500,000 to better enforce state consumer protection laws after California’s attorney general said the company has concealed COVID-19 case numbers from its workers. It’s the first such action under the state’s new “right to know” law meant to improve workplace safety.
In a statement from his office Monday, Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta also said Amazon agreed to submit to monitoring and improve how it notifies workers and local health agencies of COVID-19 cases in its workplaces. The measures come “at a crucial time for workers as Amazon’s peak holiday season approaches,” the statement said.
“As our nation continues to battle the pandemic, it is absolutely critical that businesses do their part to protect workers now — and especially during this holiday season,” Bonta said in the statement. “Californians have a right to know about potential exposures to the coronavirus to protect themselves, their families, and their communities.”
Amazon has faced ongoing pressure from the attorney general’s office in recent years. Bonta’s office said the action comes in response to a complaint accusing the company of failures to notify warehouse workers and local health agencies of COVID-19 case numbers throughout the pandemic. It is part of a stipulated judgment, a written agreement subject to court approval. Bonta said at a news conference held outside an Amazon fulfillment center in San Francisco on Monday morning that securing court approval was “a done deal.”
Among other requirements outlined Monday, Amazon must notify its tens of thousands of warehouse workers of any new COVID-19 cases within one day and disclose the exact number of cases in their workplace.
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Suhauna Hussain
Email suhauna.hussain@latimes.com
Suhauna Hussain is a reporter at the Los Angeles Times. Before joining The Times in 2018, she wrote for the Tampa Bay Times, the Center for Public Integrity, the East Bay Express, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and independent student-run newspaper, the Daily Californian. Hussain was raised in L.A. and graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in political economy.
Amazon to pay California $500,000 for ‘concealing’ COVID cases among workers
BY SUHAUNA HUSSAIN STAFF WRITER
NOV. 15, 2021 UPDATED 1:24 PM PT
Amazon has agreed to pay $500,000 to better enforce state consumer protection laws after California’s attorney general said the company has concealed COVID-19 case numbers from its workers. It’s the first such action under the state’s new “right to know” law meant to improve workplace safety.
In a statement from his office Monday, Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta also said Amazon agreed to submit to monitoring and improve how it notifies workers and local health agencies of COVID-19 cases in its workplaces. The measures come “at a crucial time for workers as Amazon’s peak holiday season approaches,” the statement said.
“As our nation continues to battle the pandemic, it is absolutely critical that businesses do their part to protect workers now — and especially during this holiday season,” Bonta said in the statement. “Californians have a right to know about potential exposures to the coronavirus to protect themselves, their families, and their communities.”
Amazon has faced ongoing pressure from the attorney general’s office in recent years. Bonta’s office said the action comes in response to a complaint accusing the company of failures to notify warehouse workers and local health agencies of COVID-19 case numbers throughout the pandemic. It is part of a stipulated judgment, a written agreement subject to court approval. Bonta said at a news conference held outside an Amazon fulfillment center in San Francisco on Monday morning that securing court approval was “a done deal.”
Among other requirements outlined Monday, Amazon must notify its tens of thousands of warehouse workers of any new COVID-19 cases within one day and disclose the exact number of cases in their workplace.
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Suhauna Hussain
Email suhauna.hussain@latimes.com
Suhauna Hussain is a reporter at the Los Angeles Times. Before joining The Times in 2018, she wrote for the Tampa Bay Times, the Center for Public Integrity, the East Bay Express, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and independent student-run newspaper, the Daily Californian. Hussain was raised in L.A. and graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in political economy.
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