New rule modeled on California law will require companies to outline workers' quotas and preclude them from using the requirements to force workers to skip breaks
A new law in New York will require companies that operate distribution centers to be more transparent about their work requirements, aiming to protect warehouse workers from possibly unlawful quotas.
Gov. Kathy Hochul last week signed the Warehouse Worker Protection Act, which is modeled after a similar, first-in-the-nation law signed in California last year. The New York law calls on companies that employ warehouse workers directly or indirectly, such as Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) and United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS), to provide those workers with a written description of quotas to which they are subject. In addition, workers cannot be required to meet quotas that prevent them from taking meal and restroom breaks.
According to text of the law, it was necessary because of "rapid growth of same- and next-day consumer package delivery, and advances in technology used for tracking employee productivity," which leave warehouse workers "at high risk of injury and illness."
"By bringing the Warehouse Worker Protection Act across the finish line, we have made sure that corporations like Amazon and UPS can't wring all the profits they can out of their employees, leaving the workers to deal with their injuries," State Sen. Jessica Ramos, author of the senate version of the bill, said in a statement. "Every...
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