On Tuesday, the Court of competent jurisdiction in social matters ordered Amazon to only ship essential items such as food and medicine to customers in France until it did a systemic assessment of worker safety at its warehouses, or face fines of up to €1m per day.
The government’s worker safety regulator has found problems at five of Amazon’s six warehouses, including workers being unable to respect social distancing rules, and a lack of hand sanitisers. But instead of simply limiting sales, however, Amazon has chosen to shut the facilities entirely for 5 days.