CALIFORNIA FINES AMAZON NEARLY $6M, ALLEGING ILLEGAL WORK QUOTAS AT 2 WAREHOUSES
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California has fined Amazon a total of $5.9 million, alleging the e-commerce giant worked warehouse employees so hard that it put their safety at risk, officials said this week.
CALIFORNIA FINES AMAZON NEARLY $6M, ALLEGING ILLEGAL WORK QUOTAS AT 2 WAREHOUSES

The two citations issued in May by the California Labor Commissioner’s Office said Amazon.​com Services LLC ran afoul of the state’s Warehouse Quota Law at facilities in Riverside and San Bernardino counties, east of Los Angeles.

The law, which took effect in 2022, “requires warehouse employers to provide employees written notice of any quotas they must follow, including the number of tasks they need to perform per hour and any discipline that could come” from not meeting the requirements, the labor commissioner’s office said in a statement.

Amazon was fined $1.2 million at a warehouse in Redlands and $4.7 million at another in nearby Moreno Valley.

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