California attorney general seeks Amazon coronavirus data
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Amazon has centers like this one in Kent, Wash., throughout California, and the state wants data about how the firm handles the coronavirus in them.Alan Berner / Seattle Times
California is ratcheting up pressure on Amazon to turn over information on how it handles the coronavirus at its sprawling network of facilities in the state.
The move is part of a mounting campaign California employers have faced from Sacramento this year to disclose virus infections at work and protect workers, even as congressional Republicans have sought to protect companies from lawsuits seeking to hold them liable for workplace infections.
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