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Amazon’s Employees: Don’t Get Ill Or Being Fired

Dec 15th, 2008

[TimeOnline UK] - According to a TimeOnline's article, Amazon's employees will be fired if they take more than five days off sick even if they have legitimate doctor's note. In addition, they are forced to work a 10.5 hour overnight shift at the end of a five-day week that means they have to work every day of the week. Here some other regulations applied to the staff, said the article: - Set quotas for the number of items to be picked or ...