SAN FRANCISCO - Amazon will pay $500,000 as part of a settlement reached with California's attorney general who had accused the retail giant of illegally withholding information about COVID cases from its workers.
Amazon workers were left in the dark about the prevalence of COVID cases at warehouses around the state throughout the pandemic, state Attorney General Rob Bonta said Monday morning in San Francisco.
The company failed to share legally required information, Bonta said. "This led to workers not knowing if they had been exposed to two, 20, or even 200 cases of COVID-19," Bonta said. "This left many workers understandably terrified and powerless to make informed decisions to protect themselves and to protect their loved ones."As part.