Amazon fined $5.9m for over 59,000 violations of California labor laws

Officials investigated two Amazon warehouses in California and said they “failed to provide written notice of quotas.”

California’s labor regulator has announced it has fined Amazon almost $6m for violating a state law aimed at curtailing the use of onerous warehouse productivity quotas by mandating greater disclosure in this area.

The California Labor Commissioner’s Office said it investigated two Amazon facilities in Moreno Valley and Redlands

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