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Amazon.com Inc has failed to comply with workplace safety rules during the pandemic and retaliated against warehouse workers who raised concerns, New York alleged in a lawsuit against the retail giant.
“Amazon’s flagrant disregard for health and safety requirements has threatened serious illness and grave harm to the thousands of workers in these facilities and poses a continued substantial and specific danger to the public health,†Letitia James, the state’s attorney general, said in a lawsuit.
Amazon sued New York last week, claiming James was overstepping her authority in trying to regulate the company’s workplace safety responses.
Amazon said in its complaint it was voluntarily exceeding “compliance requirements†with such measures as staggered shifts, rearranged break rooms and work stations, and heightened cleaning protocols.
In the complaint, James alleges that since the start of the pandemic last March, the company failed to do enough cleaning and disinfection; didn’t notify workers who have been in contact with infected colleagues; and maintained productivity policies.