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Amazon fined US$5.9m over warehouse worker quotas in California ========== Amazon has been fined US$5.9 million by the California Labor Commissioner for failing to properly inform workers of productivity quotas at two warehouses in California. The fines were issued in May and were announced by the office of California Labor Commissioner Lilia Garcia-Brower. Amazon violated a 2022 California law that requires employers to provide written descriptions of quotas to workers if they can be disciplined for failing to complete jobs at a specified speed. The violations occurred nearly 60,000 times in a five-month period ending in March at warehouses in Moreno Valley and Redlands. Amazon is appealing the citations and denies having fixed quotas for warehouse workers. The alleged quota system has been a focus of a nationwide campaign to unionize Amazon's warehouses. #Amazon #California #WarehouseWorkers #ProductivityQuotas #Unionization https://theedgemalaysia.com/node/715886