{"id":18423,"date":"2024-12-16T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T11:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=18423"},"modified":"2024-12-16T11:24:40","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T11:24:40","slug":"amazon-disregarded-internal-warnings-on-injuries-senate-investigation-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=18423","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Disregarded Internal Warnings on Injuries, Senate Investigation Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A staff report by the Senate labor committee, led by Bernie Sanders, uncovered evidence of internal concern about high injury rates at the e-commerce giant.<\/p>\n

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For years, worker advocates and some government officials have argued that Amazon\u2019s strict production quotas lead to high rates of injury for its warehouse employees. And for years, Amazon has rejected the criticism, arguing that it doesn\u2019t use strict quotas, and that its injury rates are falling close to or below the industry average.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, the majority staff of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, which is chaired by Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, published an investigation<\/a> that found that Amazon itself had documented the link between its quotas and elevated injury rates.<\/p>\n

Internal company documents collected by Mr. Sanders\u2019s investigators show that Amazon health and safety personnel recommended relaxing enforcement of the production quotas to lower injury rates, but that senior executives rejected the recommendations apparently because they worried about the effect on the company\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n

The report also affirmed the findings of investigations undertaken by a union-backed group<\/a> showing that injury rates at Amazon were almost twice the average for the rest of the industry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe shockingly dangerous working conditions at Amazon\u2019s warehouses revealed in this 160-page report are beyond unacceptable,\u201d Mr. Sanders said in a statement. \u201cAmazon\u2019s executives repeatedly chose to put profits ahead of the health and safety of its workers by ignoring recommendations that would substantially reduce injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kelly Nantel, an Amazon spokeswoman, said the internal studies and recommendations Mr. Sanders\u2019s report cited were later found by the company to be invalid. \u201cSen. Sanders\u2019 report is wrong on the facts and weaves together out-of-date documents and unverifiable anecdotes to create a preconceived narrative,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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A staff report by the Senate labor committee, led by Bernie Sanders, uncovered evidence of internal concern about high injury rates at the e-commerce giant.For years, worker advocates and some government officials have argued that Amazon\u2019s strict production quotas lead to high rates of injury for its warehouse employees. And for years, Amazon has rejected the criticism, arguing that it doesn\u2019t use strict quotas, and that its injury rates are falling close to or below the industry average.On Sunday, the majority staff of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, which is chaired by Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, published an investigation that found that Amazon itself had documented the link between its quotas and elevated injury rates.Internal company documents collected by Mr. Sanders\u2019s investigators show that Amazon health and safety personnel recommended relaxing enforcement of the production quotas to lower injury rates, but that senior executives rejected the recommendations apparently because they worried about the effect on the company\u2019s performance.The report also affirmed the findings of investigations undertaken by a union-backed group showing that injury rates at Amazon were almost twice the average for the rest of the industry.\u201cThe shockingly dangerous working conditions at Amazon\u2019s warehouses revealed in this 160-page report are beyond unacceptable,\u201d Mr. Sanders said in a statement. \u201cAmazon\u2019s executives repeatedly chose to put profits ahead of the health and safety of its workers by ignoring recommendations that would substantially reduce injuries.\u201dKelly Nantel, an Amazon spokeswoman, said the internal studies and recommendations Mr. Sanders\u2019s report cited were later found by the company to be invalid. \u201cSen. Sanders\u2019 report is wrong on the facts and weaves together out-of-date documents and unverifiable anecdotes to create a preconceived narrative,\u201d she said.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18425,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18423"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18426,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18423\/revisions\/18426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}