Monday, May 11th 2020
Intel Accused by Workers to Prioritize Chip Output over Safety Regulations
With the current world pandemic happening, it is quite difficult for every manufacturer to keep its production lines running, as the factory needs a big amount of staff to look out for the processes happening and that creates big gatherings, which is potentially dangerous for spreading the COVID-19. In the most recent report by Bloomberg Law, Intel has been accused to prioritize chip output over the safety of its employees, meaning that Intel is forcing CPU production, where the fab working conditions are not the best. Workers have reported that Intel has been pushing them to work in big groups, without proper protective equipment like shields or masks. It is reported that few managers have told that the 6 feet distancing rule is fine to break, as long as the contact is under 30 minutes. There have been four of such complaints filed against Intel, and Intel has already responded stating the following:
Source:
Bloomberg Law via Tom's Hadrware
Intel's top priority in managing the coronavirus situation is protecting the health and well-being of employees while continuing to operate and support our customers around the world. This has been an incredibly dynamic and unprecedented situation, and we have worked to learn and adapt as fast as possible so we can continue to safeguard our workers and communities.
We encourage our employees to raise concerns and we work hard to address those concerns quickly. Intel submitted formal responses to the complaints and OSHA inspectors visited our sites in Oregon, Arizona and New Mexico. We have not received any violations, and OSHA inspectors that visited our sites complimented us on our actions.
12 Comments on Intel Accused by Workers to Prioritize Chip Output over Safety Regulations
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even at my workplace it is the same, no one stays 1,5 meters away so corona will catch everyone!
Those guy's and girls are too busy doing actual work.
It will be the desk jockies ,if they work typically , they're on massive floor's sat side by side and facing people within two meters probably one meter apart.
And if they are like other desk jockies I have worked with, moaning about the situation comes before work.:p :D.
silly that this is even a thing, I doubt a company the size of Intel is literally outright stating, "work before human lives". not buying it.
They do take action.