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Amazon ignored its own worker safety studies, Senate report says

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Bloomberg Published
December 17, 2024

Amazon.com Inc. leaders rejected internal recommendations that the company relax warehouse worker productivity rates to curb injuries, according to a report from a congressional committee.

Released Monday by the majority staff for the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, the report makes the case that the e-commerce giant instead accepted “injuries to its workers as the cost of doing business.”

Amazon has long been a target of worker’s rights advocates and labor unions, who say the company pushes its employees too hard in the name of getting packages to customers quickly. The company, the second largest private US employer behind Walmart Inc., contends that it has made worker safety a priority.