Former worker sues Amazon for not providing lunch breaks

A former Amazon worker has sued the ecommerce giant in the US for not scheduling the mandatory 30minute meal breaks for employeesLovenia Scott a former employee of Amazons fulfilment centre in Vacaville California alleged that the company didnt provide enough rest breaks for workers The Verge reported on SaturdayWhen they did get their meal breaks workers were expected to monitor their walkietalkies in case of any problems on the floor which sometimes cut into their break time the lawsuit claimedFirst filed in San Francisco County Superior Court in February the case has now been moved to US District Court California Northern DistrictThe lawsuit also alleged that shifts were chronically understaffed which left some employees unable to take short 10minute rest breaks in order to finish their work on timeAmazon was yet to comment on the reportEarlier this month Amazon and an independent contractor it worked with in California were fined 64 million for wage theft by the Labor Commissions OfficeThe probe found that Green Messengers the subcontractor for Amazon underpaid drivers scheduling them 10hour days but with a workload that forced drivers to skip meal and rest breaksLast week amid a mounting evidence of allegedly illtreating its lowpaid workers Amazon denied exploitative working conditions at its facilities including forcing exhausted workers to pee in bottlesReplying to a tweet from US Representative Mark Pocan DWI the ecommerce behemoth said that the companys unionbusting tactics allegations are baselessPaying workers 15hr doesnt make you a progressive workplace when you unionbust amp make workers urinate in water bottles Pocan said in a tweetAmazon replied You dont really believe the peeing in bottles thing do you If that were true nobody would work for us The truth is that we have over a million incredible employees around the world who are proud of what they do and have great wages and health care from day oneWe hope you can enact policies that get other employers to offer what we already do the company further statedOnce the Twitter war started several journalists and people who have documented such incidents at Amazon facilities began flooding the WebJournalist James Bloodworth whose 2018 book titled Hired Six Months Undercover in LowWage Britain documented his experience of lowpaid work for companies including AmazonThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever