Amazon fined nearly $6 million for alleged violations in Inland Empire warehouses

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Technology giant Amazon was hit with $5.9 million in fines for reported violations at two Inland Empire warehouses, the California Labor Commissioner's Office announced.

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@user-ll9qk2el4d 27 күн бұрын

$6 million "major" fine. 😂😂 Amazon makes about $1 million per minute. It takes 6 minutes to pay off the fine.

@16ft2in 27 күн бұрын

Maybe these "fines" should be added directly to the employee's paychecks

@TeeLBCify 27 күн бұрын

6 million is like 6 dollars to them

@bobroberts2371 27 күн бұрын

Note that the fines are $ 100 each

@TreeSnackz 27 күн бұрын

😂

@16ft2in 27 күн бұрын

@@bobroberts2371 Each occurrence, multiple per person, I'm sure

@bigdopamine9343 27 күн бұрын

That’s like fining me 6 cents.

@TeeLBCify 27 күн бұрын

That mean you are rich

@SpookyFow 27 күн бұрын

You mean it's like fining you 0.06 percent of a penny

@walteragentplummer7031 27 күн бұрын

To usher in robots and get humans out!❤😢

@ctjk1982 27 күн бұрын

or just leave the state and whatever sanity is left.

@CeciliaGarcia-vi6nh 27 күн бұрын

Workers need to be treated with fairness and respect.

@jaminova_1969 27 күн бұрын

Yes we do!

@elevatormechanic7120 27 күн бұрын

Robots don’t, All these jobs will be automated within five years.

@jaepesci1685 27 күн бұрын

Workers need to pick up their pace

@starshine3588 27 күн бұрын

There are people who work out in the heat and cold doing hard labor…building our roads and buildings and working on power lines and running pipes underground…..yet these people are complaining they have to push carts around a warehouse and construct cardboard boxes to put products in and put packages on a machine that does the work for them. Wow….to be treated fairly they need to go work outside in the elements digging ditches and working 12 or more hours a day like all the road workers and construction crews have to. But instead they are whining about this.

@arturogarcia9946 25 күн бұрын

Will I guess nothing changes and I'm still homeless I work but this kind of people lay me off every 2 months I can't even save some money to go to tijuana and rent a apartment but even in tijuana the rent is going up

@misterfunnybones 27 күн бұрын

Shareholders want growth at any cost. If you think the working conditions are bad in a domestic Amazon warehouse, then don't even think of exposing the desperate near slavery conditions that exist to produce most of the trinkets that they sell.

@infini.tesimo 27 күн бұрын

This same algorithm is the case for the drivers in that there's high turnover from injuries that they try to not pay for and stuffing little vans to the brim make it impossible to finish some days.

@luminousminoo5316 27 күн бұрын

My back will never be the same since I worked there! They even count your toilet time.

@morthomer5804 27 күн бұрын

Because break times are specified by CA labor law.

@calstatebullies6330 27 күн бұрын

My back was ruined with toilet time too

@OgGwuap 27 күн бұрын

Listen I get that it’s June but you didn’t have to come out the closet like that.

@btcfromokc 27 күн бұрын

I would need atleast 50$ an hour to work at Amazon. Too demanding for too little of pay

@MarcusLeonard307 27 күн бұрын

What's so demanding about it that you need that much in pay?

@starshine3588 27 күн бұрын

Then you should have to go work for a road crew or construction crew and have to work out in the elements…the extreme heat and extreme cold…working 12 or more hours a day doing hard physical labor. My husband makes $17 an hour doing that hard labor…sometimes digging ditches with a shovel all day….yet you think working inside an Amazon warehouse is “too demanding”? Wow. You people really have no sense of reality. They are pushing carts around a warehouse and constructing cardboard boxes and putting packages on a machine….they probably only work 8 hour shifts and certainly aren’t doing hard labor. Absolutely ridiculous….people like that deserve to lose their jobs to machines and robots if they are going to whine about having to do some work that’s not even hard labor….they don’t deserve to get paid any amount of money. There are people in other countries who do hard labor for many hours in harsh conditions and get paid $1 and they don’t complain…they are grateful they have a job. There are people in the US who work 2 or 3 jobs just to make ends meet……yet these Amazon workers are going to complain because they have to do work.

@MarcusLeonard307 27 күн бұрын

@@starshine3588 Yea, as someone who worked in management at FedEx and was an exceptional hub/warehouse worker, I think that kind of work isn't for most women or lazy, soft men, which you tend to see in newer generations.

@Me97202 27 күн бұрын

I worked in a career for 40 years and never made more than $40 an hour. College degree required. No unskilled job should be expected to pay you $50 per hour.

@hectech 27 күн бұрын

Amazon isn't a century old company either. It's not like this is an old policy, they designed it this way.

@shadowpillar2483 25 күн бұрын

The irony is if they were a century old company they would probably be unionized by now

@joegug4751 27 күн бұрын

What a horrible corporation, boycott Amazon

@NoOneHere2Day 27 күн бұрын

It's not going to happen.

@bigfishy7816 27 күн бұрын

Good luck 😆🫵

@gracie2298 27 күн бұрын

Left them when they dropped their Smile Program. Walmart has been giving them a run for their money & prices on line are Way lower! Amazon has groomed the consumer to believe ya gotta have it tomorrow. WRONG.

@tl1533 27 күн бұрын

Make those executives including the founder work there to see if they can keep up with their design.

@chuckhunter77 27 күн бұрын

Amazon fired me for having an anxiety attack. During Mental Health Awareness Month.

@sendthis9480 27 күн бұрын

I mean…controlling your emotions is a pretty necessary thing to be able to do. I’ve had an anxiety attack. I wouldn’t hire me under those conditions either. Get some help. You don’t need to be having panic attacks…and you CERTAINLY don’t need to make it your employers responsibility.

@TreeSnackz 27 күн бұрын

😂 that’s crazy Chuck , I’d also never work in a warehouse environment just being under those lights is depressing 😂

@markarca6360 24 күн бұрын

@@sendthis9480They went too far, they should have referred him to a mental health professional instead.

@reyrayo2502 27 күн бұрын

Psp1 and ont 6 8 are jokes Write ups and power trips Its culture is high school

@XxChrisxXBedofRazors 27 күн бұрын

They've seen nothing. Compared to a certain Amazon I worked for in central Texas. You go 3 hours straight without a 15-min break. While quotas are more enforced, everyone is put on annoying competitions, and workers don’t even unionize. The list goes on… People were getting more taken advantage of. They don’t even pay you for double time when it’s mandatory. While overtime pay is a little weird the way it works out there. Thank goodness I left and returned to one of the Amazons in the Inland area after spending one hellish year in Texas. I can’t complain much about the one where I’m at now. The pay is way better too. And I give the people huge props out here for knowing how to unionize. Unlike where I was at in Texas. So I’m happily working good knowing it’s much fair.

@markarca6360 24 күн бұрын

Because they are union-busters.

@bloodz0r 27 күн бұрын

Hang on little longer. Robot will replace ur job. Dont complain Make money while u can 😮

@Woozlewuzzleable 27 күн бұрын

"Do you have change for a billion?"

@dannyblaq9433 27 күн бұрын

For many corporations this is what they call "pay to violate" the fines are significant small to the amount of profits they make. $6 million fine but make $1Billion, small fine to pay for the payout. lol

@SarahDigsHockey 27 күн бұрын

Wouldn't it have been better to post healthy, in-shape people in front of the TV cameras, to complain about injuries and working conditions instead of tired, less-healthy-looking employees who probably hurt themselves opening a jar of pickles?

@WHavriloRT 27 күн бұрын

lol 6 million is pocket change for them. The US government needs to cancel all of the contracts with them. That will get their attention.

@antoniodiego9357 27 күн бұрын

I don’t get it. If working at Amazon is so terrible, then why is it that Amazon never seems to have a shortage of employees?

@AlexR_44 27 күн бұрын

Because they're a very streamlined system, they don't need many workers, and there are tons of people here. They also put warehouses in immigration hot spots, so the stream of workers is virtually endless. When I was in my 20's some friends worked at one near us, the turnover rate is insane. Most people don't make it long enough to get their sign -on bonuses, the rest quit almost immediately after getting one. They also do, or did anyway, forced overtime, which I personally think should be illegal.

@antoniodiego9357 27 күн бұрын

@@AlexR_44 those executive jackets really know how to exploit people for their bottom lines don’t they. Thanks for the information. Now I get it👍🙂

@jaminova_1969 27 күн бұрын

Because they hire kids who don't know any better. Extremely high turnover. Alot of times Amazon has low headcount!

@calstatebullies6330 27 күн бұрын

Humans are disposable to Amazon, but there was a shortage and Amazon decided to bring back associates who were blacked out for leaving the the company

@10MM-MAGAMAN-420 27 күн бұрын

People would rather wok then be homeless, maybe they have kids to feed.? Are your serious? You must be privileged ASF

@arod7404 27 күн бұрын

This is precisely why businesses are and have been leaving California. An endless barrage of regulations.

@06Pine 27 күн бұрын

Sweatshop

@Blondie77128 27 күн бұрын

Hmm, would Amazon’s same day delivery and next day delivery be part of the problem? Stop feeding instant gratification for corporate greed dollars.

@timothya.olmeda7299 27 күн бұрын

When an empire ends up biting more than they can actually chew, this and many more circumstances occur, and they end up becoming lost in the Amazon forest.

@CamposMann 27 күн бұрын

She looks like shes looking for a lawsuit 😂 🍔 🍕 🥘

@TreeSnackz 27 күн бұрын

You’re definitely a former co-worker of her 😂

@sthcalguy3024 27 күн бұрын

Amazon should leave California too. Teach it a lesson.

@COVID-cm4rn 27 күн бұрын

They should

@markarca6360 24 күн бұрын

No, don't let it leave.

@mikel2602 27 күн бұрын

this is typical of Amazon, they take no responsibility for ANYTHING, they are never at fault. Its you, not them.

@jaad9848 26 күн бұрын

59,000 violations of the law from just Oct of last year to March of this year. Why hasnt the any of the news channels been investigating this until they fine was released ? For example the city of LA has around 900 shoplifting incidents per months so between Oct to March that is 5,400 violations of the shoplifting laws yet the news is nearly every other day reporting on shoplifting meanwhile Amazon has violated the law 10X more time in the same time and the local news hasnt made a single peep until the fine is released.

@User_92020 26 күн бұрын

They go to a room just to scream 😆 🤣 😂

@jamesy1613 27 күн бұрын

The corporate speak at 1:27 is why oversight will do nothing. They can't even use clear language

@htiekmahned8859 27 күн бұрын

Whats sad is management uses corporate speak to employees vaguely expressing their demands as to set the staff up for failure

@user-ms7sj3ur1u 27 күн бұрын

I use to work as a temp and the safety conditions are horrible

@candacejones8578 27 күн бұрын

FedEx Ground hubs does the same thing.

@DogGoMoo1 11 күн бұрын

How does one make another report?

@eddylucas7150 27 күн бұрын

Use to work in amazon The food you order from there is always covered in dust And also covered in ants and maggots same with dog food and treats

@camillecali2 27 күн бұрын

This is why I cancelled prime. I do not need anything that fast. I can wait. Other companies still take a week or more that is okay. It is also why I order less and less from amazon

@iblackfeathers 27 күн бұрын

they cut the video during the start of the next story 😂

@andrewe360 27 күн бұрын

Never worked there

@Sr_iRL 27 күн бұрын

Good, let this be the last resort if you really need to work. It does suck

@gimcrack555 27 күн бұрын

Another write up OK. See you on my next bathroom break. Who cares, just do what is actually right, which is rated wrong by Amazon standards. Write up after write up, I still have my job.

@livefree2881 27 күн бұрын

UPS is the same way,so much pressure to move boxes,I quit 😂😢

@rickchaidez5711 27 күн бұрын

Prices just went up!!

@g-dcomplex1609 27 күн бұрын

Just code for "frisk money" if ya know what i mean 😂

@happyboy420666 27 күн бұрын

I need my packages. Get back to work!

@yootoobvyooer 27 күн бұрын

Did Amazon put a gun to their heads to meet the quota and didnt let them quit? If workers VOLUNTARILY chose to work under those conditions and not quit, there is no violation.

@Sr_iRL 27 күн бұрын

So I can quit and you’ll pay my bills? Thanks, I’ll go ahead and quit today

@yootoobvyooer 27 күн бұрын

@@Sr_iRL if you quit and get a better job, they will pay you better or you can get on welfare and legally steal from taxpayers like me.

@calstatebullies6330 27 күн бұрын

Associates have paid their dues, invested time into Amazon to earn their level and pay and leaving would have you working for a company less paid and starting over. Amazon has turned promises into leverages.

@yootoobvyooer 27 күн бұрын

@@calstatebullies6330 so Amazon is the highest paying best employer for them, yet Amazon is "violating" somehow. Makes no sense.

@yootoobvyooer 27 күн бұрын

@@Sr_iRL I don't volunteer my money to you, and you shouldn't volunteer to work at a place when you can find better work. If you can't find better work, Amazon is the best employer in the world to you, so stop complaining.

@SAPPER510 27 күн бұрын

This proves the modern day status of American labor. Inferior to other countries.

@muira58 27 күн бұрын

God I love same day delivery!

@16ft2in 27 күн бұрын

Amazon, blah blah, same, WAIT... THE WOMAN'S NAME IS PLACENTA???

@JonnyD-gl7cn 18 күн бұрын

Fine should be $200 million.

@for2utube 27 күн бұрын

Unions own Sacramento. This is a propaganda piece.

@jaminova_1969 27 күн бұрын

If only. You seem to ignore the fact that Amazon is a problem because they exploit workers and treat them poorly!

@roachtoasties 27 күн бұрын

I couldn't handle the job. The amounted of boxes going through these warehouses is only going to increase. With Amazon Prime, it's the same shipping fee whether you order a bag of paperclips or a package full of stuff. Tiny orders are hardly efficient and a waste of resources, but this is what customers do.

@ringaleavo 27 күн бұрын

I guess La has nothing more important to correct, duh

@ElegalvicnLa 27 күн бұрын

OH NO!! lol they don’t care it’s $1 to them

@seeingimages 27 күн бұрын

Sounds like a fun place to work! 👍👏👌🤣

@teclabs57 16 күн бұрын

Amazon thinks people are 🤖 robots

@fluxfaze 27 күн бұрын

AI will handle it without stressing out every time quotas change.

@SameRatChannel 27 күн бұрын

What a horrible company. People need to cancel their Prime accounts ASAP.

@COVID-cm4rn 27 күн бұрын

Why dont all the workers quit if its sooo bad then amazon would fail completely. Oh wait people need jobs

@phillipgonzales4617 27 күн бұрын

Live Better Work Better Go Union!!!

@phillipmarlowe0525 27 күн бұрын

Great. But that fine not help the workers. The Government gets money workers get zero.

@Nothingham-jq3vj 27 күн бұрын

If you guys ever see an Amazon driver running when he is delivering packages it’s becasue management will literally cut your hours if the system thinks you are delivering too slow

@morthomer5804 27 күн бұрын

How many drivers are direct employees of Amazon? Ones around here are contractors.

@stevenotero2627 27 күн бұрын

@@morthomer5804Probably none. Thry love to 1099 as much as they can. Saves them millions. No vacation pay. No benefits. No sick pay. Nothing

@johney4484 27 күн бұрын

If you don’t like your job, quit and find another one.

@jaminova_1969 27 күн бұрын

In some areas, that's all there is!

@sendthis9480 27 күн бұрын

@@jaminova_1969 Ummm…this is in Riverside. This is a MAJOR metropolitan area. There are sooooooo many warehouse / production / shipping & receiving jobs in Riverside. Get real dude.

@frauwolftherehorse 27 күн бұрын

@sendthis9480 Dude (?)

@ricardovega4737 27 күн бұрын

Newsom should veto This Or Amazon Will leave California for Good 😠 !

@RobustArid379 27 күн бұрын

Im with amazon on this, who fine 6 million dollars?

@lothean2099 27 күн бұрын

Try working for walmart.

@TreeSnackz 27 күн бұрын

Years ago they just opened this warehouse 😂

@ThunderPickle69 27 күн бұрын

That's nothing

@epico09-ox7ow 27 күн бұрын

Banda sigan a unique hunter y Aldo Lara

@topofthegreen 9 күн бұрын

Everyone knows Amazon is a horrible place to work.

@markarca6360 24 күн бұрын

Just a slap on the wrist.

@24califrank 27 күн бұрын

Unionize

@ctjk1982 27 күн бұрын

it's as if this state has no lost enough jobs as it is. amazon looks like the next business in a long line of businesses to leave the state. at this rate it looks like there's really going to end up being no one left to pay taxes in the state.

@stevenotero2627 27 күн бұрын

Are you dumb or stupid ? Amazon isn't going anywhere. They need to be in California because it's where all their crap goes to from China.

@bryanr435 27 күн бұрын

Let the employees go hire new ones

@starshine3588 27 күн бұрын

Road workers and those who build houses, do plumbing and electrical and other hard labor jobs work much harder and in harsher conditions than this Amazon warehouse. Yet these people are whining and complaining. Try working outside in the hot of the summer months and the cold of the winter months….sometimes 12 or more hours a day…doing hard physical labor…….oh but it’s too hard for you to push carts around a warehouse and construct boxes to put products in….right….

@tonightimsingle 27 күн бұрын

HA I live is Rancho Cucamonga and never got a package I ordered 4 years ago 😂

@FEEDER.396 27 күн бұрын

Force Amazon to go union!

@calstatebullies6330 27 күн бұрын

If you think this is bad wait and see what Amazon affiliated companies are like. Amazon Freight partners and Amazon DSP are less regulated, ethical and professional We don’t get similar benefits or compensation and probably not receiving gift cards or the swag that owners probably keep, reminds me of when managers at Amazon were stealing gift cards meant to be given during power hours.

@stevenotero2627 27 күн бұрын

Yeah they just 1099 everyone and say, they are independent contractors. That's how they get away with breaking laws and treating people like garbage

@khernan2010 27 күн бұрын

I work for Amazon, and lazy people ‘Do’ exist I see time daily . We all have a rate nd I hit that rate if she’s in the bottom 5 than Amazon isn’t for her maybe not even a bank . But people do freeload nd don’t work than complain as their asked if they a barrier .. these are facts !!

@dollybabiesreborns 27 күн бұрын

I definitely wish Amazon would pay its workers a honest salary Amazon basically want their warehouse workers to live at the warehouse for eight hours constantly running back-and-forth with these packages that weigh more than a person moving in impossible. Amazon workers should at least be paid $25 an hour With all the labor and hard work they do. I’m a California Amazon worker and I’m glad my shift ends at four hours. It’s nothing fun about the facility you get in there and you meet your rate scan packages and you leave out the facility no appraise just the only thing you receive is swag, bucks probably, which is not life saving

@TheCrazyMoparDude68 27 күн бұрын

Sorry, but your skill set doesn’t require $25 an hour.

@Sammasambuddha 27 күн бұрын

Way to push for real robots. Careful what you ask for.

@JonnyD-gl7cn 18 күн бұрын

About time

@michaelnapolessr859 26 күн бұрын

MOVE OVER HUAMNS ROBOTS ARE MOVING IN

@dougclem7711 27 күн бұрын

POSTAL SYSTEM? LET'S INSTALL METAL DETECTORS, QUICKLY . WHERE IS WARREN BUFFETT? FLYING IN HIS NEW JET.

@leonardogranic-flores1860 27 күн бұрын

yall better stop complaining because AI robots are right around the corner. If you dont like it, dont work at amazon imo.

@jaepesci1685 27 күн бұрын

2:10 i support your manager. You need to pick up the pace! My package is never on time. You sound like a troubled employee . you should know he targets

@jaepesci1685 27 күн бұрын

I support the algorithms qoutas! No lazy workers!

@gusjones9388 27 күн бұрын

Go ahead, complain now before the robots take your job away.

@COVID-cm4rn 27 күн бұрын

Dont like the job? Then quit.

@JohnLee-db9zt 27 күн бұрын

Soon they’ll all be replaced by robots.

@capdaviscams7169 27 күн бұрын

Fining Amazon $6 million is like a fine of one penny to a person with a $6 million income... maybe worse. What a joke. Amazon is not going to comment because they dont give a ffffff.

@leishabrum-lw2tu 27 күн бұрын

The best thing to do is to stop buying from Amazon all together. There are some workers abusing others and the job market is tough, so they get them fired to hire another right away. I'm thinkingof closing my Amazon account and have been a member for 16 years. Thier prices are going to skyrocket when the law suits sen in.

@jaminova_1969 27 күн бұрын

I work for Amazon and am thinking the same. Not sure about Walmart or Cost Co, but I've never heard complaints from Cost Co employeess!

@okhondaguy3288 27 күн бұрын

Find another job and stop crying?

@Riskmangler 27 күн бұрын

As an Amazon customer, I'm totally okay waiting another day or two for my order to arrive if it means worker safety is improved. It's an easy fix because Amazon has a monopoly on online shopping. So, if they institute change, the customers have no choice but to follow. There is no competitive edge to lose by doing the right thing.

@user-hc4ti8kw4v 24 күн бұрын

Amazon is looking into replacing humans. Robots purchased will work 24/7.

@mike8857 27 күн бұрын

Just find another job then. The job market will correct itself.

@BillMiller-ob4vh 16 күн бұрын

amazon is a monster because they are allowed to be especially in 🇺🇸. Has long has they have lowest prices they don't care about their reputation. I HATE CORPORATE 🇺🇲