PARIS — Amazon threatened Wednesday to suspend all activity in France after a French court found it wasn’t doing enough to protect its workers from the coronavirus.
The online giant also announced plans to appeal Tuesday’s emergency ruling, which requires Amazon to stop selling nonessential goods for a month while it works out new worker safety measures.
Sales of food, medicine and hygiene supplies are still allowed under the ruling. However, Amazon France said in a statement Wednesday that the decision is so disruptive that it could prompt the company to suspend all activity at its six French warehouses.
The company stressed the importance of its services to the “thousands of French companies that sell on Amazon” and “millions of people around the country who want to have access to products they need during the crisis.”
Amazon insisted that it is providing adequate security measures for staff, noting the implementation of temperature checks and mask distribution.
But the court found Amazon didn’t do enough to enforce social distancing, to ensure that turnstiles and locker rooms were virus-free, or to increase cleaning of its warehouses. Unions say one worker infected with the virus is in intensive care.
Amazon threatens to halt all activity in France after being accused of not protecting workers enough
A French court's emergency ruling Tuesday requires Amazon to stop selling nonessential goods for a month while it works out new worker safety measures.
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They have a new design, it includes an oxygen mask and even a ventilator for the worst case scenario!
There's nothing wrong with this economic system, go back to work and be a good little slave. The most honorable death is to die working to make our capitalist gods money!
All heil our capitalist Gods for being so kind to the mere worker.
Heil victory!
Heil capitalism!
HEIL GDP!
