Amazon is restoring a new forehead policy in which the screening of a metal detection for warehouse employees per hour in its 750,000 US is being returned. Bloomberg The report will also need to register their phones in the retail giant so that security personnel know that they have not stolen the equipment.
Amazon allegedly began telling workers at the selected test locations about the phone registration and metal detector screening on Monday. The company is planning to slowly take anti -theft measures, first starts with test warehouses and then spread to all its US facilities according to Bloomberg.
Under the new policy, employees will have to walk through a metal detector to leave Amazon warehouses to ensure that they have taken nothing with them. The phone entry involves sharing the last six digits of the phone’s serial number in exchange for a sticker.
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“We are always working to make our facilities safe and secure for our employees and all the companies of all sizes who have trusted us to store their inventory,” said a spokeswoman for Amazon. Bloomberg In an email statement.
Screening of metal detection in Amazon warehouses is not new – they were already normal before pandemic disease. But they were controversial, and workers filed a screening case in 2014, which sought more than 100 million waist salary for time spent on the line waiting for screening. He alleged that he was in line for 25 minutes at a time to comply.
In the Amazon completion center in New Jersey’s Robbinsville. Photographer: Bang Guan/Bloomberg Getty Images ThroughThat same year, the US Supreme Court had finalized the matter and ruled that the workers are not entitled to pay the time to be wasted after a change in the screening of the metal detection.
Amazon prevented employees from accessing their phone before pandemic diseases, and ordered them to leave personal devices to cars or lockers. The retail giant eased this policy during the epidemic when workers tried to lose real -time medical information. Bloomberg.
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According to Business InternalAmazon operates 110 warehouses in the United States, with a few million square feet.
Statistta It is estimated that Amazon is the second largest company in the world after Walmart, with 1.5 million global employees by 2023.
