“I’m fearful for my life every time I walk inside the building,” one Amazon worker said. “The more and more they say they’re doing, the more and more they’re lying.”
In late March, with coronavirus cases on the rise across the country, Cody Gordon got sick. He asked to go home, but his supervisor at a Kentucky Walmart told him if he did, he’d get fired, he said.
“There’s a sign by the time clock, ‘If you feel sick, do not clock in,’” Gordon told The Daily Beast. “Yet when that happened, they start to fire you.”
As it turned out, he had the flu and bronchitis, not COVID-19. But since Walmart’s emergency paid sick time policy covers only people diagnosed with the pandemic or quarantined because of it, he went without pay for the week he couldn’t work, he said.
Walmart spokeswoman Jami Lamontagne said all workers receive paid time off under regular circumstances, and that, in the current crisis, the company has waived its attendance policy, allowing employees to stay home if they feel uncomfortable working. They may choose to use their regular paid time off during that time. She said the company was also providing additional paid leave for people required to quarantine or diagnosed with COVID-19…
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