The California Labor Commissioner's Office has fined Amazon a total of $5.9 million on allegations the company violated a state law by working warehouse employees so hard that their safety was put at risk. The two citations, which were issued in May, said Amazon.com Services LLC violated the state's Warehouse Quota Law at facilities in Riverside and San Bernardino counties, the labor commissioner's office said Tuesday in a press release. Amazon was fined $1.
Amazon said Tuesday that it denies the allegations from the state and has appealed the citations. "The truth is, we don't have fixed quotas," Amazon spokesperson Maureen Lynch Vogel said in a statement to the Associated Press. "At Amazon, individual performance is evaluated over a long period of time, in relation to how the entire site’s team is performing. Employees can — and are encouraged to — review their performance whenever they wish.
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