Amazon to give warehouse workers masks and check temperatures after employee walkouts
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Amazon is taking extra measures to protect its employees from coronavirus after recent public outcry and employee walk-outs.
The company has ordered millions of face masks that are now arriving at warehouse centers for employees to wear.
“Masks will be available as soon as today in some locations and in all locations by early next week,” Amazon’s Senior Vice President of Worldwide Operations, Dave Clark, wrote in a blog post. “Any N-95 masks we receive we are either donating to healthcare workers on the front lines or making them available through Amazon Business to healthcare and government organizations at cost.”
In addition to having face masks to wear, hundreds of thousands of employees per day will have their temperature checked upon arrival, the company says. If a worker has a temperature more than 100.4 degrees, they will “be asked to return home and only come back to work after they’ve gone three days without a fever.”
The company will roll out the same measures at Whole Foods Market stores by next week. Other companies, such as Walmart and Home Depot, are also checking employees’ temperature.