Under pressure, Amazon announced that it would provide up to two weeks of paid leave to employees ordered into quarantine by a doctor. Even then, some Amazon workers reported not receiving the money9. In withholding paid sick leave, Amazon was not merely exploiting a hole in American law. It was applying its corporate muscle to keeping that hole wide open. Amazon outsourced the dirty work10 to a host of trade associations—the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Retail Federation, the National Federation of Independent Business, and the Food Marketing Institute. All reported lobbying on paid
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