Amazon set to end 'unlimited unpaid time off' policy

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• Amazon told Business Insider that its policy of unlimited but unpaid time off, announced in response to COVID-19, extends only "through the end of April."
• Amazon initially set the policy to expire in March, before the company extended it another month amid a growing number of coronavirus infections at its facilities.
• "I think it means they want people who don't want to come to work to start quitting," an Amazon warehouse employee told Business Insider.
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Amazon reminded employees at an Indiana warehouse on Tuesday that it is terminating its policy of unlimited, unpaid time off on April 30 — while informing them that a fourth coworker had tested positive for COVID-19.

The next day Amazon told employees of a fifth case at the facility in Jeffersonville, Indiana, which Business Insider last month reported was failing to comply with the company's social-distancing measures.

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