Warehouse Worker Protection: New Rights and Workplace Safety
This Act introduces new rules for warehouse workers to protect them from excessive performance demands and improve working conditions. Citizens employed in warehouses will gain greater transparency regarding requirements, access to their work data, and enhanced health and safety protections. The changes aim to ensure fairer employment conditions and prevent injuries.
Key points
Warehouse workers will receive written descriptions of all performance requirements (quotas), how they are monitored, and potential consequences of not meeting them.
Employers cannot set quotas that prevent meal, rest, or bathroom breaks, or violate health and safety regulations and rights to reasonable accommodations.
Mandatory paid 15-minute breaks every 4 hours of work will be introduced, along with a prohibition on retaliation for exercising rights under the Act.
Employees will have the right to review and correct their work speed data, and to file complaints without fear of termination or other negative consequences.
The Act requires employers to implement standards for preventing musculoskeletal disorders and to ensure prompt medical attention after workplace injuries.
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