#Amazon workers experience a disproportionate share of #injuries in the warehousing industry and that injuries at Amazon warehouses were more likely to be serious enough to require time off work.

Amazon accounts for 79 percent of employment among warehouses with at least 1,000 workers,
but 86 percent of all injuries.

Last year, Amazon’s injury rate was more than one and a half times that of TJX (which owns T.J. Maxx, Marshalls, and other large retailers) and almost triple that of Walmart, the two comparable US warehouse employers

https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/amazon-injury-rate/

Amazon Says Its Injury Rates Are Down. They’re Still the Highest in the Industry. | The Nation

Exclusive: An independent review of Amazon’s annual safety report finds that the company’s warehouse workers experience a disproportionate share of injuries.

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This lawsuit is a minor headache for #Amazon. Allegedly a woman was fired for doing her job which was keeping Amazon’s #ArtificialIntelligence from using content illegally (probably copyrighted material).

Her boss reportedly did not like that “do-gooder attitude” & demoted her, before firing her during maternity leave. This case could open up lawsuits against Amazon’s #AI in the future.

👉🏾 Ex-Amazon Was Told to Ignore Law to Develop AI Faster: Lawsuit (subscription) https://www.businessinsider.com/ex-amazon-ghaderi-exec-suing-ai-race-copyright-allegations-2024

Ex-Amazon was told to ignore law to develop AI faster: lawsuit

A former Amazon exec alleges that the company instructed her to ignore copyright rules to stay afloat in the race for AI innovation.

^{Rebecca Rommen (Insider)}

LEVER TIME: Amazon Is Eating The Economy

https://www.levernews.com/lever-time-amazon-is-eating-the-economy/

In a landmark lawsuit filed last year by the Federal Trade Commission, the government accuses Amazon of long being engaged in illegal market behavior.

#Bezos #Crime #FTC #Amazon #Economy