"Amazon Prime Day created a surge in health and safety complaints from exhausted workers", 24 July 2018

Amazon Prime Day broke records last week [...] but proved the most controversial deal day to date with strikes breaking out across Europe and health and safety complaints from Amazon UK workers soaring by 209 per cent, according to workplace digital campaigning platform Organise...

“These allegations are not accurate,” an Amazon spokesperson said... “To our knowledge, Organise doesn’t verify that respondents actually work for the company they claim to work for...", add[ing] that Amazon has several ways for employees to provide anonymous feedback and that it “simply false” to say that complaints spiked...

[F]ull-time Amazon employees earn £8.35 an hour after their first two years. Employees, the Amazon spokesperson said, are offered private medical insurance, life assurance, and income protection, as well as a company pension plan. 

These rights would not be extended to the 5,000 seasonal workers Amazon hired to cover the surge in business around Prime Day...

“Ensuring the safety of associates is our number one priority,” Amazon’s spokesperson said. “...We don’t recognise these allegations as an accurate portrayal of activities in our buildings.”

The debate over Amazon’s workplace conditions may be decided in court.