Sick Employees Told to Fake Temperature Checks During Pandemic: Lawsuit

A woman who used to work for a construction company in Boardman, Oregon filed a lawsuit against the company, alleging it asked her and other employees to fake temperature readings so they could go to work.

The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Katrina Bryant, who said she worked for Gray Construction, Inc. According to the lawsuit filed by attorney Michael Fuller, Bryant's job involved taking employees' temperatures as they entered the construction site, which was in the process of building warehouses for Amazon.

According to the suit, workers were not officially allowed to go to work if they had a temperature above 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit, a rule that was also in place for Amazon's own employees.

Despite the rule, the lawsuit alleged employees with fevers were allowed to slip through the cracks and go to work at the construction site. Bryant alleged she observed the company using "faulty" thermometers that occasionally didn't work at all. In the event that the thermometers gave a reading above the designated 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit mark, Bryant said she and the employees who were feverish were instructed to manipulate the temperature reading in some way.

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