Vogel said the company assesses performance “based on safe and achievable expectations and take into account time and tenure, peer performance, and adherence to safe work practices.” “While we agree with the goals of this bill, this legislation is based on a misunderstanding of our business performance metrics,” Amazon spokesperson Maureen Lynch Vogel said in a prepared statement. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has said the company was trying to improve warehouse safety.Īmazon has said it doesn’t have fixed quotas, but has “performance expectations” for workers based on how their peers perform at particular sites. That’s a dip from 7.6% in 2021, but slightly higher than 6.5% in 2020. Critics and labor safety experts often blame the company’s fast-paced warehouses for that problem.Īmazon said in a recent report it recorded a 6.7% rate of injuries and illnesses per 200,000 working hours across its U.S. Injuries at Amazon facilities have typically been higher compared to its peers in the industry. The bill mirrors similar laws passed in recent years in New York and California that attempt to regulate how Amazon surveys workers in its vast number of warehouses.
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