In letter to Joe Biden, Amazon urges Covid-19 vaccines for its employees

Image Source : AP Amazon urges newly sworn-in US President Joe Biden to avail vaccines for its workers.
In a letter addressed to US President Joe Biden, Amazon has stated that its important employees who can’t work at home ought to obtain the Covid-19 vaccine on the “earliest appropriate” time.

Amazon additionally stated that the corporate stands prepared to help the Biden administration in reaching the objective of vaccinating 100 million Americans within the first 100 days of the brand new administration, GeekWire reported on Wednesday.

“The essential employees working at Amazon fulfilment centres, AWS data centres, and Whole Foods Market stores across the country who cannot work from home should receive the Covid-19 vaccine at the earliest appropriate time,” Dave Clark, CEO of Amazon’s worldwide client enterprise, wrote within the letter.

“We will assist them in that effort,” he stated.

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Amazon, which has over 800,000 workers within the US, earlier confronted criticism from former and present workers who had alleged that the protection measures put in place by the corporate to guard warehouse workers have been insufficient.

However, Amazon stated that it invested $10 billion to assist hold workers protected and ship merchandise to prospects all through 2020.

Clark, in his letter to Biden, stated that Amazon has an settlement in place with a licensed third-party occupational well being care supplier to manage vaccines on-site at Amazon services.

“We are prepared to move quickly once vaccines are available,” he stated.

“Additionally, we are prepared to leverage our operations, information technology, and communications capabilities and expertise to assist your administration’s vaccination efforts,” Clark stated within the letter.

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