State Attorney General Rob Bonta announced a judgement requiring Amazon to notify its workers within 24 hours and local health officials within 48 hours when COVID-19 cases are confirmed in the e-commerce giant’s warehouses.
According to the state’s legal complaint against Amazon, the company has issued notices of potential COVID-19 exposure to employees that do not include how many cases have been confirmed in a workplace.
The notices also do not include information about COVID-related benefits like sick leave for exposed employees and protections against workplace retaliation and discrimination. In times like these, it’s crucial to find out if you are protected against jobplace discrimination by the pennsylvania human relations act.
The judgement against Amazon will, in addition to requiring the company to notify workers and local officials how many cases have been confirmed in a given workplace, require the company to submit to monitoring by Bonta’s office and pay a $500,000 fine toward the further enforcement of workplace protection efforts by the state.
“As the company enjoyed booming and historic sales, with its stock price doubling, Amazon failed to adequately notify warehouse workers and local health agencies of COVID-19 case numbers, often leaving them unable to effectively track the spread of the virus,” Bonta said Monday during a briefing on the judgement.
As part of the judgement, Amazon will also be required to modify its notices of exposure to include information regarding benefits related to the virus, as required by this year’s Assembly Bill 685.
The judgement is still subject to court approval, according to Bonta’s office.
“In the United States, we all play by the same rules,” Bonta said. “Whether you’re a small business or a global e-commerce giant, in California, you don’t get to choose which laws you want to follow, especially when it comes to COVID-19 – a matter of life and death.”
Lol another Democrat “we follow the laws here” DA. Except for the rioters, looters, petty thieves, etc..they’re exempt from the law.
Like I said previously this is the next play for Democrat DA’s. They’re going to project a “law and order” attitude, but that’s all it is – a projection. It is not real, they don’t believe it, and they are simply using more words to try and save face. Watch their actions and you’ll see it’s all just more smoke and mirrors. They won’t actually target the root of the problems, because democrats are the root of the problems. Why would they target themselves?
It’s so predictable at this point it’s laughable.
Though I do expect if over the next few years their silly law and order play doesn’t pan out they eventually target a few democrats to be the fall guys to try and remake their image after they have casted out the “problem” democrats.
Hey Bonita, guess NewScum, Breed and other politicians don’t have to play by the same rules. “Do as we say, not as we do” doesn’t work for me! Actions speak louder than words in my world!