A California labor regulator said on Tuesday that it had fined Amazon nearly $6 million for thousands of violations of a safety law that took effect in 2022.
The measure, known as the Warehouse Quotas Law, lets employees request written explanations of any productivity quotas that apply to them, as well as explanations of any discipline they may face in failing to meet the quotas.
The state labor commissioner’s office said Amazon violated the law more than 59,000 times at two Southern California warehouses between October and March.
The system that Amazon used in the two warehouses “is exactly the kind of system that the Warehouse Quotas Law was put in place to prevent,” the labor commissioner, Lilia García-Brower, said in a statement.
Persons:
Lilia García, Brower
Organizations:
Amazon
Locations:
California, Southern California