'This is outrageous. Covid is not over, Amazon.'
A day after union voting ended late last week at Amazon's LDJ5 warehouse in Staten Island, the company announced it is ending its nationwide Covid-19 paid sick leave policy—prompting suspicions that management deliberately waited until after workers at the New York facility cast their ballots to unveil the change.
"Amazon waited until the day after the union election in Staten Island to announce what for many will be very troubling news,"."Nationwide, it will no longer pay workers who are out sick with Covid OR inform workers when someone at their warehouse tests positive for Covid." Amazon's U.S.-based employees will now receive just five days of excused and unpaid time off if they test positive for Covid-19, which continues to spread across the country.that Amazon is also ending its coronavirus vaccination incentives and no longer excusing"any time for employees who are waiting for test results."Vicki Shabo, a paid leave expert and a senior fellow at New America."Covid is not over, Amazon.
The policy move took effect Monday as the National Labor Relations Board prepared to count union election ballots cast at LDJ5, an Amazon facility across the street from the JFK8 warehouse that became the company's first U.S. location to
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