SEATTLE - Starting Monday, Amazon will be requiring all of its 900,000 U.S. warehouse workers to wear masks indoors, regardless of their vaccination status.The move follows steps by a slew of other retailers, including Walmart and Target, to mandate masks for their workers.
In many of those cases the mandates apply to workers in locations of substantial COVID-19 transmission.Amazon said Friday that its call for a nationwide mask mandate for its warehouse workers was in response to the spread of COVID-19 variants in the U.S., and guidance from public health authorities and its own medical experts.
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