Amazon hit by California fine under warehouse worker law [Video]

CALIFORNIA, USA — California workplace regulators are fining Amazon $6 million over alleged violations of a recent warehouse labor law at two of the company’s Inland Empire warehouses. 

Labor Commissioner Lilia García-Brower’s office said today that the e-commerce giant failed to notify employees at the ONT8 warehouse in Moreno Valley and ONT9 in Redlands of any productivity quotas they were required to meet, leading workers to be disciplined without knowing why.

“If you don’t work a certain number of items per day and make sure you meet your rate you’ll get a write-up, or a verbal coaching,” Carrie Stone, an ONT8 worker, said at a press conference today. “My manager said I missed it by 1%, and I got the write-up. I didn’t even know what the target was …