The two Moreno Valley employees said that they're not being offered paid time off if they're afraid to work because of a threat of infection but that they are being allowed to go home without pay and not lose their jobs. It's a decision, they said, between making the money they need to support their families and keeping their loved ones safe from the fast-spreading virus.
"Our process evaluates where the employee was in the building, for how long, how much time has passed since they were onsite, and who they interacted with, among other items, in determining whether we need to close," according to the company statement."We also ask anyone at the site who was in close contact with the diagnosed individual to stay home with pay for 14 days in self-quarantine.
"Even as office workers are asked to work from home, Amazon's measures to protect FC and DC workers, as well as shop floor workers at Whole Foods, have ranged from inadequate to openly negligent," said the letter, a copy of which was obtained by NBC News. The letter encouraged colleagues to donate to a GoFundMe page set up to support fulfillment center employees who have contracted COVID-19.
Given Amazon makes billions in profits each year, you'd think they'd be testing their employes as they come to work.
nhannahjones And how much did Jeff Bezos pay for his new home?
stopbeingfamous They'll simply replace u with robots, keep it up.
there goes amazon online shopping...
No a fucking crew of mariachis- Can you please lock down that place we don’t know if it’s the food or the people bringing it into work and that could be detrimental to both Amazon and the economy
Send a crew down there
stopbeingfamous So one infection is BE WORRIED. I know you need to sell news, but can you stop panicking people. It really doesn’t help.
The richest single human being in the world is the one to respond for this
JoyAnnReid Testing, we need more testing!
Only touched a few hundred packages. 📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦🤷🏾♀️📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦📦
Some of us order nothing from amazon. Some of us are not guilty of causing deaths.
I just ordered and received...should I be worried? Obviously right? **throws boxes on lawn...**
STRIKE! LEAVE! You have power!
Not ordering anthing from Amazon until this coronas us done (and i order items on a weekly) 😏
JoyAnnReid This world is coming to an end
JoyAnnReid Amazon has a chance to do the right thing.. pay for the testing of all workers, and pay for their treatment. We are watching.
JoyAnnReid Ohhh like everything else in the world is clean ..someone is probably coughing on the broccoli I’m buying tomorrow
JoyAnnReid So they should pick a day and walk out. One day to show jeff he needs to do more than add a donation button.
JoyAnnReid Come on, JeffBezos , you can buy what your workers need to stay safe and still have enough money left over to run a small planet.
JeffBezos is another example of failure in leadership.
How to unpack your groceries and packages safely :
Not to mention they're probably shipping infection all over the country.
If they all quit and file for unemployment with “constructive discharge” claims, which they’ll win, I’m sure JeffBezos & amazon will clean up their operations.
But if Jeff helped his employees he'd only have 121 billion left. He might as well be on food stamps. U people are mean to Jeff.
Shut it down like the others
Ummmmm and they didn’t know this would happen how?
Jeff Bezos is a multi billionaire...he needs to start protecting his workers and paying them more. Enough being selfish...pay your workers and protect them ... selfish CEO prick.
The growing number of Amazon centers where employees have tested positive for COVID-19 has sparked concern from warehouse and technology workers, who are agitating within the company for more to be done to protect the health of workers or the their packages containing the virus
Shut it down. The employees are more important than material things.
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