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    Amazon Warehouse Safety 'Inadequate,' N.Y. Attorney General's Office Says

    Amazon may have violated federal health and safety standards as well as New York's whistleblower law, the New York attorney general's office wrote to Amazon in a letter obtained by NPR.
    by Alina Selyukh Apr 27, 2020 3 minutes
    Workers at Amazon's Staten Island, N.Y., warehouse staged a protest demanding that the facility be closed following several confirmed cases of the coronavirus among staff.

    Updated at 7:15 p.m. ET

    Amazon may have violated federal safety standards for providing "inadequate" protections to warehouse workers in New York, the state attorney general's office says.

    In a letter to Amazon obtained by NPR, the office of New York's top lawyer Letitia James says the company may have also broken the state's whistleblower laws for firing a warehouse worker who helped organize a protest in Staten Island.

    "While we continue to investigate, the information so far available to us raises concerns that

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