The $500k fine is of course a complete joke, considering the seriousness of the matter at hand.
But "as the company enjoyed booming and historic sales with its stock price doubling, Amazon failed to adequately notify warehouse workers and local health agencies of COVID-19 case numbers", the state's attorney general Rob Bonta said.
"This left many workers understandably terrified and powerless to make informed decisions to protect themselves and to protect their loved ones."
Amazon lurkers out there - especially L6 and above - do you have anything to say about this? Anything at all?
Or are you so used to hearing such patent bullshit from your higher-ups (of the sort pasted below) that it just ... goes through you?
Nothing personal - I'd just really like to know.
"This settlement is solely about a technicality specific to California state law surrounding the structure of bulk employee COVID-related notifications," the spokesperson added.
"There's no change to, or allegations of any problems with, our protocols for notifying employees who might have been in close contact with an affected individual.
"We've worked hard from the beginning of the pandemic to keep our employees safe and deliver for our customers - incurring more than $15bn (£11bn) in costs to date - and we'll keep doing that in months and years ahead," they added.
But "as the company enjoyed booming and historic sales with its stock price doubling, Amazon failed to adequately notify warehouse workers and local health agencies of COVID-19 case numbers", the state's attorney general Rob Bonta said.
"This left many workers understandably terrified and powerless to make informed decisions to protect themselves and to protect their loved ones."
Amazon lurkers out there - especially L6 and above - do you have anything to say about this? Anything at all?
Or are you so used to hearing such patent bullshit from your higher-ups (of the sort pasted below) that it just ... goes through you?
Nothing personal - I'd just really like to know.
"This settlement is solely about a technicality specific to California state law surrounding the structure of bulk employee COVID-related notifications," the spokesperson added.
"There's no change to, or allegations of any problems with, our protocols for notifying employees who might have been in close contact with an affected individual.
"We've worked hard from the beginning of the pandemic to keep our employees safe and deliver for our customers - incurring more than $15bn (£11bn) in costs to date - and we'll keep doing that in months and years ahead," they added.