Six legislators of the state of Georgia will introduce a new bill on Monday, which contains the work speed rates in camps.
The Georgia Warehouse Workplace Protection Act (HB 16) would restrict the use of work speed data, require the implementation of ergonomic measures to reduce violations of the musculoskeletal system and initiate paid rest – Among other requirements.
Rep. Kim Schofield (D-63), who will introduce the legislation alongside several democratic colleagues, said Georgia has the opportunity to conduct the south of the creation of safer jobs.
United for respect, an organization for employee representative, supported the draft law by Senator Nan Orrock (d) and state representative Schofield (D-63), Dewey McClain (D-109), Sandra Scott (D-76), Viola Davis (D-87) and Lydia Glaize (D-67).
“This legislation sends a clear message that the life and dignity of warehouse workers in Georgia cannot be sacrificed for corporate profit,” said Betty Kates, Associate at Amazon's Atl6 facility in Atlanta.
Georgia is not alone to concentrate on the safety of workers in camps. The state joins a broader trend under states that want to enact more difficult standards and assertiveness mechanisms for ergonomics that cannot be seen at the federal level.
A law in New York is intended to impose new ergonomic requirements for ergonomics at work this year and could be a model for countries that want to satisfy themselves with concerns about the above-average injury rates in camps in general and Amazon facilities.
Connecticut's legislators took into account the security legislation of warehouse, which the New York law reflects. California and Oregon only have limited warehouse operators from productivity or work speed rates and could expand their laws with more prescribed ergonomic requirements.
Minnesota and Washington State already need ergonomic standards in the workplace to different degrees.
The adoption of legislation in Georgia could be a considerable buoyancy.
Both the representatives of the state of Georgia, Schofield and McClain are members of the House Committee for industry and work.
However, the Republicans have a solid majority in the legislation of Georgia – the Democrats need GOP supporters so that the draft law can be adopted.
It is unclear how the Trump administration at the federal level at the federal level will tackle security security.
Amazon is still exposed to an increasing examination by the legislator of the federal government, which say that the company's work speed rates worsen the nature of warehouse jobs that are prone to injury. The company agreed to initiate new ergonomic security procedures in its institutions nationwide as part of an agreement to solve several US security and health violations in the United States, which result from the studies that have started in 2022.
At that time, an Amazon spokesman said that Osha withdrew nine of the 10 quotes, while the company accepted only one of these quotes for a location in Illinois, where the company agreed to make changes to better enforce its existing guidelines for ergonomic risks.
“It is not entitled to miscarriage of Amazon for the withdrawn quotes or a guideline for the introduction of new security checks,” Maureen Lynch Vogel told Bloomberg Law at that time.
The candidate of President Donald Trump, the security guard at work, David Keeling, headed, was director of road and transport security at Amazon for almost two years from 2021 to 2023.
