California investigates Amazon's treatment of workers during pandemic

Filings allege employees had to share equipment and were not allowed extra time to account for social distancing

Amazon is under investigation in California for failing to protect its warehouse employees from the new coronavirus.

California's attorney general Xavier Becerra, the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, and the San Francisco department of public health have all opened investigations into Amazon's practices" around the pandemic, San Francisco superior court judge Ethan Schulman wrote in a court filing on Monday.