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Amazon made airport workers toil in 100-degree heat without shade, water — The trillion-dollar online retailer plans to appeal workplace safety citations and $14,625 in fines (jalopnik.com)

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Amazon made airport workers toil in 100-degree heat without shade, water — The trillion-dollar online retailer plans to appeal workplace safety citations and $14,625 in fines::The trillion-dollar online retailer plans to appeal Cal/OSHA citations and $14,625 in fines.

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[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 96 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That is a BS fine. That is a rounding error for an hour of operation. They willfully endanger their employees and should be fined a percentage of gross profit, no other way they will have incentive to not harm their employees.

[–] Maven@lemmy.sdf.org 65 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And they're going to fight it. A literally insignificant slap on the wrist, and they're still going to the wall. Burn amazon down.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Of course they're going to fight it, courts operate on precedence...imagine if this stood how many other suits would come to the fold, even at 14k a piece it would show someone can at least fight against megacorps.

[–] RainfallSonata@lemmy.world 27 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

They should be fucking shut down. Fuck fines.

[–] Badeendje@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

Well the fine system should augment the rest of the measures. It's not as if you can keep doing what you are fined for. The punishment for repeat offence should and does result in escalation of punishment.

The issue seems to be two fold:

The fine system did not keep up with reality and the insane income inequality. If fines are setup to hurt equally, like a percentage of global revenue, or of total assets, you can bet your ass they will be effective at stopping undesired behavior.
The lack of shame, it used to be that getting a fine would actually serve as a signal people understood, but the corporate shield from personal responsibility has gone so far that decision makers just do not care about potential consequences.