Technology giant Amazon was hit with $5.9 million in fines for reported violations at two Inland Empire warehouses, the California Labor Commissioner's Office announced.
Technology giant Amazon was hit with $5.9 million in fines for reported violations at two Inland Empire warehouses, the California Labor Commissioner's Office announced. Lilia Garcia Bower, the state Labor Commissioner, said Amazon warehouses in Moreno Valley and Redlands operated in violation of the Warehouse Quotas Law, established in 2021 under Assembly Bill 701, which is a state law intended to prevent overworking employees.
20, 2023 and March 9, 2024, led to the identification of 59,017 violations, according to the commissioner's office.Amazon issued a statement in response, saying the company disagrees 'with the allegations made in the citations and have appealed.''The truth is, we don't have fixed quotas,' spokeswoman Maureen Lynch Vogel said. 'At Amazon, individual performance is evaluated over a long period of time, in relation to how the entire site's team is performing.
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