Amazon Defends COVID-19 Policies After Calif. Pact

Amazon was glad to resolve a California complaint claiming the company kept COVID-19 case information from workers, a spokesperson emailed Monday evening. Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) announced an agreement earlier that day with Amazon to change its policies (see 2111150055). Bonta “found no substantive issues with the safety measures in our buildings,” and Amazon has “worked hard from the beginning of the pandemic to keep our employees safe and deliver for our customers,” spending $15 billion, “and we’ll keep doing that in months and years ahead,” the spokesperson said. The state’s complaint concerned coronavirus notifications sent to employees in bulk; it didn’t raise issues with Amazon protocols for notifying an employee who might have been in close contact to someone with COVID-19, the spokesperson said.