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Teamsters and workers urge state limits on secret quotas and protections for warehouse employees
Summary
Teamsters Local 25 and warehouse workers testified in favor of bills (H.2103/S.1307) to require employers to disclose speed‑tracking quota data and to bar discipline tied to opaque performance algorithms; workers also pressed for protections from extreme temperatures in warehouses.
Boston — Warehouse employees, union representatives and worker organizers told the Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development on June 18 that modern warehouse monitoring and secret quotas create unsafe conditions and that legislation is needed to protect workers.
Thomas Maury, president of Teamsters Local 25, urged support of H.2103/S.1307, legislation supporters said would let employees obtain individual and facility aggregate speed‑tracking data, protect workers from retaliation for requesting that data, and create a private right of action to enforce…
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