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This decision had been hoped for several weeks by the trade union organizations. The judicial court of Nanterre on Tuesday ordered Amazon France to establish an assessment of the risks inherent in the epidemic of coronavirus for all its warehouses and to restrict meanwhile its activity to only essential products. At the microphone of Europe 1, Antoine Delorme, CGT union representative of the warehouse in Sevrey, near Chalon-sur-Saône, confides his relief, and defends "a measure to protect the health of employees".
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"The court's decision is consistent with what has been said from the start," explains Antoine Delorme, according to whom many withdrawal rights had been exercised by the site's employees, "but were not considered legitimate by Amazon ". "Many [employees] returned to their workplace with a lump in their stomachs, these are not optimal conditions for coming to work," he denounces.
"On the site, we don't only sell essential products"
According to him, the objective of the unions is not "to attack Amazon on the activity", but to be in "a measure of protection of the health of the employees". However, he continues, on the Sevrey site, "we don't only sell essential products. If it's to send shoes and clothes, we don't understand the goal".
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For its part, Amazon reacted, saying it "disagreed with the decision rendered". "Nothing is more important than the safety of our employees," says the group, claiming to have distributed on its sites "more than 127,000 packs of disinfectant wipes, more than 27,000 liters of hydroalcoholic gel, as well as more than 1.5 million masks "in the past four weeks.