From CNET: Amazon is expanding its program that allows injured workers to do light-duty work for nonprofits and charities, the Financial Times reported Thursday. The voluntary program keeps Amazon employees fully paid while doing light work at food pantries, thrift stores and other charities.
Advocates for workers rights say the program hides the true toll of injuries at Amazon's warehouses because it allows the company to say injuries resulted in a shift to light duty, rather than lost time, according to the Financial Times.
The lost-time metric is "politically sensitive" and highlights more serious incidents at Amazon warehouses, reported the Financial Times. Data reported by Amazon and analyzed by labor union coalition the Strategic Organizing Center shows an increase in "light duty" injuries in recent years.
More than 10,000 employees have been placed at charities and nonprofits since the program, Amazon Community Together, was started in 2016, according to the report.
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