New York gets closer to cracking down on Amazon’s warehouse production quotas
by Emma Roth from The Verge - All Posts on (#600C2)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge New York's State Assembly passed the Warehouse Worker Protection Act (WWPA) on Friday, a bill that would require Amazon and other companies to disclose production quotas to workers, as first reported by CNBC. If New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) signs it into law, it would also prevent employees from having to meet quotas that require them to skip lunch or bathroom breaks.
Just like a similar bill passed in California last September, the WWPA states that employers will need to provide each warehouse worker with a written description of each quota to which the employee is subject" when they're hired (or within 30 days of the bill becoming law). It also bars employers from punishing workers for failing to meet quotas that weren't...