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Taking care of employees needs to start with the business continuity planning department [1]. Usually either in Operations or Finance. Find them and talk to t
by SkyMarshal 7y ago
Taking care of employees needs to start with the business continuity planning department [1]. Usually either in Operations or Finance. Find them and talk to them. Ideally they should already be doing it. Disruptions to fulfillment due to outbreaks and mass sickness should a priority for them. And Amazon of all orgs has the ability to supply it's workers with PPE (they're already reserving high-quality PPE on their site for medical and essential workers).
Worst case scenario is they've decided it's cheaper to risk an outbreak in their fulfillment centers and just fire the sick employees and hire replacements from among the ~30million newly jobless, even accounting for the expense of resulting lawsuits. If that's the case, not much you can do besides quit or put together a class action lawsuit (or join one of the existing ones).
But if that's not the case, then maybe you'll learn something useful from them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_continuity_planning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_continuity_planning
- _jal 7y agoAttempting to negotiate with Ops or Finance at this stage is doomed. They have made their position clear; it is time to counteroffer. A union is what you want here, that can credibly threaten real pain. Depending on how that needs to be communicated, after the people with the purse strings take you seriously, then you sit down to talk.
- lazyasciiart 7y agoA counter offer is negotiating.