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Amazon has not complied with Minnesota’s new warehouse worker safety law, which requires large warehouse distribution centers to tell workers what productivity quotas they’re being held to and to turn over individual performance data. That’s according to Abdi Muse, executive director of the Awood Center, a non-profit that supports primarily East African workers pushing for higher wages and better working conditions.
“Based on what workers are telling us, Amazon is not complying,” Muse said.
Maureen Lynch Vogel, an Amazon spokesperson, said that’s false: “The site is fully complying with the new law, and employees can access their performance metrics at any one of nine kiosks across the site, or by asking their manager. Any assertion otherwise is simply untrue. In fact, employees have had access to this information before the law was even passed.”
In regards to telling workers their productivity quotas, Lynch Vogel said Amazon doesn’t have fixed quotas but that performance is assessed “on safe and achievable expectations and takes into account time and tenure, peer performance, and adherence to safe work practices. We’re in compliance with the law.”
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