Amazon Contractor Forces Workers To Choose: Catch COVID-19 Or Starve To Death
Amazon Contractor Forces Workers To Choose: Catch COVID-19 Or Starve To Death

Employees of a call center contractor for Amazon are complaining of dangerous working conditions in the city of Cebu, in the Philippines.

Business Insider reports workers say they're being forced to make an impossible choice: either become infected with COVID-19--or starve.

The contractor, Teleperformance, provides call center services for Amazon's Ring video doorbell products.

Dozens of the call center's employees have developed flu-like symptoms, which are characteristic of COVID-19 infection.