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Amazon India workers say they're overworked and mistreated during a brutal heat wave
Amazon India says it ensures breaks and worker safety, but workers tell NPR they're pressured not to stop for water or to use the toilet, especially while processing same-day orders.
In June, India’s semi-governmental National Human Rights Commission sent a notice to the company after the Indian Express newspaper reported that workers at an Amazon warehouse were made to pledge not to take toiletor water breaks until they’d met their targets for the day. The report by the UNI Global Union organization in Switzerland last year detailed problems facing Amazon workers around the world, like being underpaid and having to urinate inside bottles to meet productivity targets. Amit Basole, professor of economics at India’s Azim Premji University, says he’s doubtful much will happen, because the government’s priority is to create jobs for the country’s enormous young, underemployed population.
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