A 63-year-old Amazon worker in Bristol was reportedly put on a final warning for productivity after a tracking device deemed his work too slow. The incident, which happened a few years ago, was recounted by Labour MP Darren Jones during a grilling of Amazon's European head of public policy Brian Palmer in front of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Select Committee.
During the hearing yesterday (Tuesday), MPs challenged him over Amazon's approach to workers' rights and his claim that the company surveils its goods and not its workers. The MP for Bristol North West was unsatisfied with Mr Palmer's responses and gave a specific example from his constituency to illustrate his point.
Mr Jones said: "He was 63, he was [working] with you just to fill his time before his pension. He came to see me in my surgery to tell me that he had...some kit that basically told him he wasn't packing things quickly enough and he'd had two strikes already.
