{"id":36246,"date":"2021-06-10T17:10:58","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T00:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36246"},"modified":"2021-06-10T17:16:34","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T00:16:34","slug":"amazons-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36246","title":{"rendered":"AMAZON\u2019S INITIATIVE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon created a $12 million workplace injury initiative in partnership with the National Safety Council aimed at researching and reducing the most common workplace injuries, the <a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/mctsmzwgpccljzjcltnpplsspwlvcwckkdpgzbvcqwqtyb_xcbdrrhvhtdbvhhbvdcj.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/mctsmzwgpccljzjcltnpplsspwlvcwckkdpgzbvcqwqtyb_xcbdrrhvhtdbvhhbvdcj.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1623449265127000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEUlZ9VPY4HMHuKRIZ6WvZcZVoAWQ\">council said Thursday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The partnership comes as the Seattle-based e-commerce giant has committed to maintain its productivity targets for warehouse workers despite Washington state\u2019s safety regulator determining last month the pressure is causing injuries and violating the law.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative will seek to find \u201cinnovative solutions\u201d to prevent the most common workplace injury: musculoskeletal disorders, or injuries involving nerves, muscles, joints and other body parts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PAY UP:<\/strong>\u00a0A European Union privacy regulator has reportedly proposed issuing a more than $425 million fine against Amazon over alleged violations to European data privacy laws.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/dtpszlgkjttfblbtfrcjjfssjgfwtgtnnmjkldwtpgprhj_xcbdrrhvhtdbvhhbvdcj.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/dtpszlgkjttfblbtfrcjjfssjgfwtgtnnmjkldwtpgprhj_xcbdrrhvhtdbvhhbvdcj.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1623449265127000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEm4iQirXI5JUZJS-K6gCW44PdNtA\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a>\u00a0reported Thursday that people familiar with the matter said that Luxembourg\u2019s National Data Protection Commission, or the CNPD, had circulated a draft petition for fines to be imposed on Amazon across the EU\u2019s 27 countries.<\/p>\n<p>The CNPD serves as Amazon\u2019s lead privacy regulator in the EU, with the multinational tech giant\u2019s European headquarters located in the country\u2019s capital of Luxembourg City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon created a $12 million workplace&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36247,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36246\/revisions\/36247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}