SEATTLE — Amazon may have violated federal worker safety laws and New York State’s whistle-blower protections when it fired an employee from its Staten Island warehouse who protested the company’s response to the coronavirus outbreak, according to a letter the office of the New York attorney general, Letitia James, sent the company last week. The […]
Amazon has fired a New York city warehouse worker who organized a strike to demand greater protections for employees amid the coronavirus outbreak.Chris Smalls, a management assistant at the Staten Island facility, known as JFK8, said he was fired Monday afternoon...
Amazon (AMZN) confirmed the firing Monday night, telling CNN Business in a statement that the employee, Christian Smalls, was supposed to be under quarantine. “Mr. Smalls was found to have had close contact with a diagnosed associate with a confirmed case of...
Instacart said Sunday that it will soon begin making hand sanitizer available to its “full service shoppers,” who shop and deliver groceries for the company. It is also making it easier for customers to set their own default tipping percentage in the...
The more than $50 billion in government aid U.S. airlines are seeking as the coronavirus ravages their businesses must include worker and consumer protections, Democratic lawmakers and labor unions said Tuesday. They criticized airlines for spending years of windfall...
