Amazon fined about $6 million for violating labour laws in US

E-commerce large Amazon has been fined almost $6 million for violating labour laws in the state of California in the US.

The California Department of Industrial Relations mentioned in a press release that the e-commerce main did not present workers written discover of quotas they need to comply with — a requirement of the Warehouse Quotas legislation.

“The employer argued they didn’t want a quota system as a result of they use a peer-to-peer analysis system,” based on the assertion.

The legislation requires warehouse employers to offer workers the variety of duties they should carry out per hour and any self-discipline that would come from not assembly the quota.

“The peer-to-peer system that Amazon was utilizing in these two warehouses is precisely the sort of system that the Warehouse Quotas legislation was put in place to stop,” mentioned Labour Commissioner Lilia Garcia-Brower.

“Undisclosed quotas expose staff to elevated strain to work sooner and might result in increased harm charges and different violations by forcing staff to skip breaks,” Garcia-Brower added.

The Labour Commissioner’s Office started its preliminary inspection on September 22, 2022.

The investigation discovered there have been 59,017 violations for the Moreno Valley and Redlands warehouses from October 20, 2023 to March 9, 2024.

With inputs from IANS