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New York Attorney General Letitia James sued Amazon on Tuesday over workplace safety concerns at two of the company s distribution and fulfillment centers in Queens and Staten Island. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images
Updated at 9:07 a.m. ET
New York Attorney General Letitia James sued Amazon on Tuesday, claiming the massive e-commerce company s flagrant disregard for health and safety requirements during the coronavirus pandemic put the lives of workers and the general public at risk.
She accused the company of shoddy contact tracing and poor cleaning both designed to prevent the spread of the virus at two New York facilities: a Staten Island fulfillment center and a Queens distribution center. A worker at the State Island plant warehouse died of COVID-19.
New York Attorney General Letitia James on Tuesday sued Amazon.com Inc over its handling of worker safety issues around the COVID-19 pandemic at two warehouses, just days after the retailer filed its own lawsuit seeking to block her case.
In a complaint filed in a New York state court in Manhattan, James said that Amazon’s drive for faster growth and higher profits led to its “flagrant disregard” of steps needed to protect workers from the novel coronavirus at a Staten Island fulfillment center and a Queens distribution center, both in New York City.
James also accused Amazon of illegally retaliating when employees
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