Amazon hit with $5.9 million fine for violating California labor law

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• evergreen@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh no! That’s almost seven minutes worth of revenue!

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  • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That seemed a bit ridiculous, so I checked. You’re right.

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    • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So that would be around $2.40 fine for someone making 50k/year

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    • Cybermonk_Taiji@r.nf ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Just to flesh out the context:

      As of June 10, 2024, Amazon’s daily profit is estimated to be around $1.29 billion, or $53–54 million per hour.

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    • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It is still insufficient, but it’s also disingenuous to use the profit of their global operations to say the fine is a small cost of doing business to their California warehouses.

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• TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fines are obviously not doing anything to companies like this. Charge the people making decisions.

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  • Bookmeat@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Break up these massive corporations.

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    • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s fun too. But ultimately has the same function as a fine. The circle of life AT&T has taught us that. Nothing will change unless people are actually help accountable.

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• Heymaker123@lemmynsfw.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Surprise, Amazon warehouse jobs are Akin to sweatshops. They try to parse bullshit to get around regulations so that they can suck every last bit of energy from their employees causing their bodies long term harm in the process.

  I guess they’ll just fire these employees, cut off their insurance and send them out to pasture . I bet they’ll fill those vacant positions with newly arrived workers from other countries.

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  • EnderMB@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The corporate jobs aren’t much better. The pay is great for tech workers, but no amount of money makes the 10% yearly cull, the added layoffs, and micromanagement easier.

    To your last point, though, you’d be surprised at how hard it can be as a very experienced candidate from outside the US to land a role in the US. I have had multiple HM’s that have wanted to hire me for my experience in their market, but they have been forced to take domestic candidates or to run weeks of interviews with external candidates to rule out that a foreigner should get a tech role.

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• LordCrom@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s like 1 hour of profits? Ooooo. They’re scared now.

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• nothingcorporate@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I can’t wait for The supreme Court to invalidate this and rule that fining corporations is unconstitutional… for reasons.

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  • isles@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They don’t have to - if the penalty is a fine, then it’s just the cost of business. Everyone is fine with the system - as long as the profits gained from breaking the rule are bigger than the fine, behavior won’t change.

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• Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s not a penalty. That’s a rounding error.

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• EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That number suffix should start with a B rather than M

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  • BoxerDevil@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Or at least 2 more zeros

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• Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  pennies

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• Pacmanlives@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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