New York sues Amazon over worker safety during Covid-19 pandemic

AG accuses e-com giant of failing to adequately protect staff at 2 warehouses

New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, sued Amazon on Tuesday evening, arguing that the company provided inadequate safety protection for workers in New York City during the pandemic and retaliated against employees who raised concerns over the conditions.
 
The case focuses on two Amazon facilities: a large warehouse on Staten Island and a delivery depot in Que­ens. James argues that Am­azon failed to properly clean its buildings, conducted inadequate contact tracing for known Covid-19 cases, and “took swift retaliatory action” to silence complaints from workers.
 
“Amazon’s extreme profits and exponential growth rate came at the expense of the