California fines Amazon $6M for alleged violations of warehouse quota law at 2 warehouses
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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 $1.2 million at a warehouse in Redlands and $4.7 million at another warehouse in Moreno Valley.
The Warehouse Quota Law, enacted in 2022, requires warehouse employers to provide employees with written notice of any quotas they are expected to follow, including how many tasks they need to complete per hour and any discipline that could result from not meeting the requirements, the labor commissioner's office said.
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Amazon.com Services LLC is accused of violating California's Warehouse Quota Law at facilities in Riverside and San Bernardino counties. (Photo by John Keeble/Getty Images)
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. They can always talk to a manager if they’re having trouble finding the information.»
The citations accuse Amazon of not
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