Warehouse workers say Amazon’s quotas put them at health risk
October 15, 2020
Amazon.com employees at a warehouse in Staten Island, NY, say the company has reinstated warehouse productivity quotas that it promised a judge it would not reinstate during the novel coronavirus pandemic. A lawsuit filed on the workers’ behalves alleges that managers have “once again been hassling employees about productivity, and warning them that slowness could get them terminated.”
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