Amazon Hit With Lawsuit Over Covid Safety Investigation In California

Specifically, the petition seeks information on issues, including:

“We’re puzzled by the Attorney General’s sudden rush to court because we’ve been working cooperatively for months and their claims of noncompliance with their demands don’t line up with the facts,” it said.

State officials fined the company about $1,500 in October over coronavirus safety violations at two warehouses in California, following complaints from staff, The LA Times reported at the time.

Investigators found facilities at sites in Eastvale and Hawthorne failed to mitigate the exposure of employees to the virus by not providing effective safety training.

At protests near to the company’s Seattle headquarters in November, workers again claimed the company had not done enough to protect them from COVID-19.

The company’s numbers indicated that around 1.44 percent of employees have contracted the virus, while the 7,277,352 cases confirmed in the U.S. at that time represented about 2.2 percent of the country’s overall population.