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stackskiptontoday at 1:44 PM2 repliesview on HN

The act basically makes Amazon responsible for these subcontractors. BTW, they are not only ones who do this, UPS and Fedex have similar setups.

The problem here is Amazon farms out delivery to these companies, set impossible delivery standards that require these subcontractor employees to do things that break the law OR cause damage to their health. However, since Amazon is technically not employing them, they have no liability.


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grueztoday at 1:56 PM

>set impossible delivery standards that require these subcontractor employees to do things that break the law OR cause damage to their health

Source? Is it actually physically "impossible", or simply a race to the bottom dynamic?

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spongebobstoestoday at 1:56 PM

isn't this the fault of the subcontractor for agreeing to the impossible?

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