Amazon Cuts Paid Leave for Workers With Covid-19 After CDC Updates Guidance
—the nation’s second-largest private employer has decided that a change was necessary for their pandemic response policies, as well.In a notice to U.S. workers on Friday, which the company provided to Gizmodo on Saturday,
Amazon told employees that it would be reducing the paid leave it provides to people who test positive for covid-19 and those who are exposed to someone with the virus after reviewing the CDC’s new guidance. The company’s quarantine and isolation periods are now one week—seven calendar days—long, during which workers will be provided with up to 40 hours of paid leave.
The notice did not mention a negative covid-19 test in order to return to work. We’ve reached out to Amazon to clarify whether this will be required.covid-19 paid leave policy was put into place in 2020, the company
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