From Vice
>Amazon did not immediately respond to an email Tuesday morning asking how many people at the site have been ordered into self-quarantine
Even if they did quarantine others, putting someone on a 14 day quarantine 17 days after contact is hard to explain.
It would be harder to explain why Amazon didn't put on quarantine an employee who was vocal about his exposure to the virus.
At most it sounds like malevolent compliance.
They did not follow health guidelines until the person complained and then they still don't follow them but instead claim to follow them. Why just claim? After the 14 day phase the guidelines don't suggest any quarantines unless people show symptoms.
Full paid leave is not what most people in the US would call retaliation, particularly in the case of a warehouse worker.
We have these things called "courts" that are well-suited to addressing complaints like this one.
But a strike, right now, is not the answer. It's just pouring gasoline on the fire. Counterproductive at all levels. Labor organization is all about picking your battles, and this is the wrong fight in the wrong place at the wrong time. His beef with Amazon needs to be settled in a courtroom, not on a picket line.
The only worse thing he could have done would be to try to lead a strike during a world war.
Perhaps the workers should just continue to allow amazon to get away with exposing them to covid-19 with no notification, for the greater good.
Not that hard. If everyone in the office had contact with someone infected then the best thing to do would have been to quarantine them all right away. Because without that, you now have the possibility that one of them had an asymptomatic case which they could have still had and given to any of the others less than a week ago, which means the others are still inside the window for being infected but not having either recovered or showed symptoms. Which means they still need to be quarantined.
That’s how we came to have employer-provided healthcare:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/upshot/the-real-reason-th...
And it's arguably a terrible system that we're still stuck with today, with the effect of handcuffing productive people to their desks in dead-end jobs. We'd be far better off with universal coverage that's not tied to employment... and yes, that means better-off economically.
But the worker was placed on a 15 day paid leave to self quarantine because he stated he had direct contact with someone infected with covid19.
And then he not only broke his quarantine but also made it his point to go to work, potentially risking his colleagues.
Even if you argue that he did't carried covid19, that action is not justifiable, neither safety-wise nor legaly-wise.
If he took health and safety so seriously then he wouldn't be breaking his quarantine after he claimed he had direct contact with someone carrying the virus to drive up to work potentially exposing all his co-workers to the virus.
Yet in every post you make, you continue to misrepresent the situation.
You are being hugely dishonest
This judgment call changed. If bureaucratic ineptitude was to blame, those people ignored proper procedure, making them insubordinate, and risked lives. And if they found the issue confusing enough to take eighteen days to issue the quarantine notice, they should understand why this employee might think they are being targeted for their labor practices.
The available information changed. This very quickly went from something many people weren't sure wasn't going to be maybe a nasty flu to something that has half the world staying home from work and hospitals getting overrun. Changing your procedures in response to new information is what managers should be doing.
They'd have been smarter to respond to it sooner, but better late than never.
You're trying to spin it both ways. If Amazon was just idiotic about their response to the outbreak, why did they pick that moment to suddenly take things super serious and fire the employee?