Amazon Fined $5.9 Million Over Warehouse Productivity Quotas
- California law requires company to provide written work quotas
- Facilities affected in Moreno Valley and Redlands, California
An Amazon warehouse in Redlands, Calif.
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Amazon.com Inc. was fined $5.9 million for failing to provide written work quotas to employees at two warehouses in Southern California, an escalation in regulatory penalties imposed on the online retailer in the wake of a new state law that took effect in 2022.
The California Department of Industrial Relations issued two citations in May, alleging Amazon violated the state’s warehouse quota law. It requires companies to give workers written notice of productivity quotas — the number of tasks per hour required to avoid being disciplined. The state agency said Amazon failed to do this for employees at facilities in Moreno Valley and Redlands between October and March.