Amazon.com Inc has reached a settlement with California to resolve claims it concealed from warehouse workers and local health agencies the numbers of workers being infected with COVID-19, the state's attorney general said on Monday.
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Attorney General Rob Bonta said that by keeping tens of thousands of warehouse workers, as well as agencies in the dark, the online retailing giant left them unable to effectively track the spread of the virus. "We're glad to have this resolved and to see that the AG found no substantive issues with the safety measures in our buildings," Amazon spokeswoman Barbara Agrait said in an email.
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