AMZN - Amazon Slapped With $5.9M Fine For Violating Worker Quota Law In California Nearly 60K Times Over 5 Months | Benzinga
Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) has been fined $5.9 million by a California labor regulator for allegedly failing to inform workers of productivity quotas at two of its warehouses.
What Happened: The California Labor Commissioner, Lilia Garcia-Brower, announced the fines on Tuesday, Reuters reported. The fines were issued in May and are tied to a 2022 California law that mandates employers to provide written descriptions of quotas to workers who can be disciplined for not meeting specified job speeds.
The commissioner alleged that Amazon violated this law nearly 60,000 times over five months ending in March at its Moreno Valley and Redlands warehouses, both located outside Los Angeles.
Amazon spokesperson Maureen Lynch Vogel stated that the company is appealing the citations and refuted the claim that warehouse workers have fixed quotas. The alleged ...