The state Senate’s passage of Assembly Bill 701—which was expected to pass in the state Assembly on Friday, three months after the chamber approved its own version of the legislation—would require companies to disclose to the government and to their employees the quotas that are used to track productivity, prohibit penalties for “time off-task,” and bar companies from retaliating against workers who complain about the metrics used. As the workers’ rights platform Organise reported in a survey taken in 2018, 74% of Amazon warehouse workers avoided taking bathroom breaks for fear of not meeting quotas for packing merchandise, and more than half of the workers said they had suffered from depression since working for the e-commerce giant. Amazon employees sustain injuries more often than workers at other warehouses. Serious injuries were reported about 80% more often among Amazon workers than other employees. Amazon reported a net income of $21.3 billion in 2020, up $10 billion from the year before, and a revenue of more than $386 billion. Amazon’s profits were supercharged during Covid and Jeff Bezos got richer by $70 billion.
— source commondreams.org | Sep 10, 2021
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