About $6 million was fined to Amazon for breaking US labor laws.
According to the law, warehouse employers must inform workers of the amount of jobs they must do each hour and of any potential consequences for exceeding the quota.
New York: For breaking labor regulations in the US state of California, e-commerce behemoth Amazon was fined about $6 million.
The e-commerce behemoth failed to notify staff members in writing of the quotas they must adhere to, as required by the Warehouse Quotas statute, according to a statement from the California Department of Industrial Relations.
According to the statement, "the employer argued they did not need a quota system because they use a peer-to-peer evaluation system."
According to the law, warehouse employers must inform workers of the amount of jobs they must do each hour and of any potential consequences for exceeding the quota.
"The peer-to-peer technology that these two warehouses utilized from Amazon is precisely the type of system that the Warehouse Quotas law was put in place to prevent,” said Labour Commissioner Lilia Garcia-Brower.
Unknown quotas put employees under more pressure to perform more quickly, which can increase the risk of accidents and other infractions by requiring employees to miss breaks, according to Garcia-Brower.
On September 22, 2022, the Labour Commissioner's Office started its first inspection.
From October 20, 2023 to March 9, 2024, there were 59,017 infractions for the Moreno Valley and Redlands warehouses, according to the report.
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