Amazon will require warehouse workers request leave to stay home starting May 1st

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon is changing its unpaid leave policies starting next month, according to a report from Bloomberg. On May 1st, hourly employees — a vast majority of which are among the company’s 250,000 or so warehouse workers who cannot work from home — must request an unpaid leave of absence to continue staying home if they do not want to work out of fear for their safety during the COVID-19 pandemic.Throughout the coronavirus crisis, Amazon&rsqu