Amazon may have violated U.S. health standards for 'inadequate' warehouse safety measures, N.Y. attorney general's office says, adding that the company may have also broken the state's whistleblower laws for firing a worker who helped organize a protest.
Workers at Amazon's Staten Island, N.Y., warehouse staged a protest demanding that the facility be closed following several confirmed cases of the coronavirus among staff.Workers at Amazon's Staten Island, N.Y., warehouse staged a protest demanding that the facility be closed following several confirmed cases of the coronavirus among staff.
In a letter to Amazon obtained by NPR, the office of New York's top lawyer Letitia James says the company may have also broken the state's whistleblower laws for firing a warehouse worker who helped organize a protest in Staten Island. "While we continue to investigate, the information so far available to us raises concerns that Amazon's health and safety measures taken in response to the COVID-19 pandemic are so inadequate that they may violate several provisions of the Occupational Safety and Health Act" and other federal and state guidelines, James's staff wrote in the letter, dated April 22.
The New York attorney general's office declined to comment. Amazon on Monday did not directly respond to the letter, but cited previous comments it has made on the criticisms. The company has maintained that workers' accusations were unfounded and that it has taken"extreme measures to keep people safe."
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