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1. joshst+(OP)[view] [source] 2020-04-14 18:42:23
> (This story corrects second paragraph to say Christian Smalls was fired for violating paid quarantine, not for raising health and safety concerns.)

I'm I misremembering or was that story "fired for violating paid quarantine" proven to be iffy at best? I'm looking for confirmation.

Edit: Found what I think I was looking for [0]

> Here is the key point Amazon claims he was exposed to the worker on March 11th. Over the weekened he said he is organizing a strike, so over the weekend they order him and only him into quarantine. A full 18 days after his 5 min exposure. From my reading of it, this almost certainly looks like retaliatory action due to the strike, and a company using the excuse of quarantine to cover it up. Key excerpts from a much clearer article. And yet again, why you never 100% believe a company's PR response when they're trying to cover themselves. They tell just enough truth, but use it to intentionally mislead.

> https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/31/amazon-strik....

>> According to the company’s previous statements, the infected co-worker in question last reported for work on 11 March. Had Smalls been exposed that day, a 14-day mandatory quarantine would have made him eligible to return as soon as 25 March.

>> Smalls said Amazon did not send him home until 28 March, three weeks after the exposure.

>> “No one else was put on quarantine,” he said, even as the infected person worked alongside “associates for 10-plus hours a week”.

>> “You put me on quarantine for coming into contact with somebody, but I was around [that person] for less than five minutes,” he told Vice.

>> According to Amazon, no one else was fired. Smalls said he was considering legal action, calling it “a no-brainer”.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22739059

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