(California) Amazon to pay $500,000 for not sharing Covid data

Source: BBC

Amazon to pay $500,000 for not sharing Covid data

16 November 2021

Amazon has reached a legal settlement in California over claims it failed to adequately inform its warehouse workers about Covid-19 cases in the workplace.

California's attorney general said workers had been left "terrified and powerless".

The delivery giant will pay $500,000 (£370,000), but did not admit wrongdoing in agreeing the settlement.

Amazon said the law did not require it to share total numbers of cases with staff, but it had now started to do so.

It is the first application of the state's "right to know" rules that require employers to keep staff notified.

The legislation requires firms to inform workers promptly of potential Covid exposures at their work sites, to tell them about pandemic-related protections, benefits, disinfection and safety plans, and to report cases to local health agencies.

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