Amazon Shortens Paid Leave For U.S. Workers With Covid After CDC Changes Guidance

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisakim/2022/01/07/amazon-shortens-paid-leave-for-us-workers-with-covid-after-cdc-changes-guidance/

Amazon Shortens Paid Leave For U.S. Workers With Covid After CDC Changes Guidance

Lisa Kim | Forbes Staff
Business
Updated Jan 7, 2022, 06:24pm EST

TOPLINE Amazon is reducing paid leave for all U.S. employees who contract Covid-19 or need to quarantine from 10 days to 40 hours, the latest major private employer to cut its paid leave after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its recommendations for self-isolation.

• All U.S. workers who test positive for Covid-19 or are exposed to the coronavirus will be offered up to 40 hours of paid leave, Amazon told employees in a notice the company sent to Forbes (the change was first reported by CNBC and the Wall Street Journal.)

• The Journal reported Amazon is allowing U.S. workers who contract Covid-19 to return to work after isolating for seven days.

• Amazon is the second-largest private employer in the country, after Walmart, which also halved its paid leave for workers who contract Covid-19 this week — their decisions could be a bellwether for other large employers.

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1. Apparently Walmart

has done the same

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2. Just read that post, too!

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