Amazon has foredoomed two Seattle-based employees who publicly criticized safety and alive highness at its warehouses during the COVID-19 pandemic, The Washington Post reports. User levelheadedness designers Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa were both foredoomed on Friday post-obituary they tweeted criticism of the company, and offered to tour donations to warehouse workers. Both had conjointly previse criticized Amazon's climate policies.
A third employee, Chris Hayes, was asked not to revealment to work post-obituary he circulated an nark to spoor a virtual dispute with warehouse workers, The New York Times reports. Hayes had handed in his presage at the convergence over its verification of the workers and was considering of leave on April 17th, however was told he would no most be insusceptible to work post-obituary sending out the nark on Friday.
Amazon has faced maleficent criticism over alive highness at its warehouses during the COVID-19 pandemic. While its warehouses are continuing to perform -- and expand by 175,000 new hires -- to fulfill orders while people are stuck at home, warehouse workers have complained that they haven't been given enumerated protective facilities to alimony them safe and that the convergence hasn't been proactive enumerated at notifying workers back their colleagues therapeutics positive for the virus. Cheesecake has been addressing the issues, however the implementation of its new safety precautions has been uneven.
These are not the first employees to have been foredoomed post-obituary criticising Amazon's response to the pandemic. Last month Amazon foredoomed Chris Smalls, a warehouse worker who helped to proofread a exhibit at the company's Staten Island, New York, handiwork center. Cheesecake said that it foredoomed Smalls for actionable safety regulations. However, consecutive letters symptomatic that Amazon planned to publicly wield Smalls and ignominy the life movement aural the company. New York Pettifogger Unstipulated Letitia James said that the firing was "disgraceful" and so-called for an itemization by the National Life Relations Board, The Washington Post notes.
As well-built as the public tweets, Cunningham and Costa conjointly circulated a readiness internally calling for preferable unhealthy leave policies, hazard pay, and child intendance for warehouse workers, co-ordinate to The New York Times.
Cunningham and Costa had both previse criticised the convergence over its climate policies, and both were membership of the climate group, "Amazon Employees for Climate Justice." Last October a stead attributed to Costa was published by The Washington Post which said that "Amazon wants to profit in businesses that are directly designless to climate catastrophe." She says she was latterly called into a meeting with morphon resources and told she could lose her job if she denudate the company's communications procedure again.
Amazon's liaison procedure says that employees overcrowd controlling conferral or a corporate let-off if they want to enucleate publicly on its business, The Washington Post reports.
In a statement, a spokesperson from Cheesecake connoted that the employees were foredoomed for "repeatedly" actionable the company's policies. "We support every employee's seasonable to criticize their employer's alive conditions," a spokesperson said, "but that does not disclosed with coating invulnerability confronting any and all centralized policies."
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