Amazon promises its U.S. Prime members access to thousands of products delivered to them either the same or the following day. However, some employees say that speed comes at a cost to them.
"We are humans. Our safety is important to us, but they treat us like one of their robots," said Nanette Plascencia who has worked at the Moreno Valley Amazon facility for 10 years and learned of the Warehouse Quota Law from the news.
But she says when she asked her management about it, she and others were told the new law didn't apply to them. It turns out it did apply.
Amazon was fined $5.9 million for allegedly not providing workers at its Moreno Valley and Redlands warehouses with written work quotas.
The California Department of Industrial Relations says it sent letters to warehouse employers letting them know of the new law, which went into effect in 2022. The department says it conducted 650 compliance visits thought the state.
