«Breaking News» Amazon's Australian 'cult' warehouse, workers are too scared to go to the toilet

Amazon set their Australian website live in December, promising Australians affordable products and thousands of local jobs.

Yet, at the company's two 'fulfillment centres' in Melbourne's outer south-east and Moorebank in Sydney, there are claims that workers are being subjected to pressures to meet daily targets, and are afraid to use the bathroom outside of specified times according to a Fairfax investigation.

The investigation found that the casual employees aren't hired by Amazon, but rather a third-party labour hire firm known as Adecco.

The working day begins with a group stretching session where they're forced to share an 'Amazon success story' before senior staff then lead a team chant, with words such as 'Quality!', 'Success!', 'Amazon!', or 'Prime!' shouted - often while jumping in the air, according to Fairfax.

At Amazon's two 'fulfilment centres' workers are under lots of stress to meet daily targets (Pictured: an Amazon warehouse in Germany)

Workers have anonymously told Fairfax Media that their every move is being monitored and analysed each day.

They expressed that they feel like they're under copious amounts of pressure to meet their daily targets, otherwise their jobs are in jeopardy.

One worker told Fairfax that employees are scared to drink water while on the job so they did not have to go to the bathroom outside 'designated break times'. 

Another employee described the warehouse as a 'hellscape'.

Although it is normal for warehouses to outsource employees from a third-party, but the National Union of Workers (NUW) national secretary, Tim Kennedy, said it was odd for it to make up all workers in an establishment. 

The NUW said that casual workers employed at Amazon have a starting rate of $25.36 per hour, whereas other warehouses have casual rates between $30 and $37.

Amazon labels their workers 'associates', and employees told Fairfax they had a 'cult-like' experience in the warehouse.

In both the Melbourne and Sydney facilities, only a handful of senior staff are employed with the company (Pictured: An Amazon warehouse in New Jersey)

'You end up not being able to function because you're so nervous and stressed out,' a worker said. 

Workers also said that if they did not meet performance targets, they would be told to leave and get a text saying their next shift is cancelled, and were also scared of reporting injuries as they were under the impression they wouldn't get shifts.

It was common for shifts to be cancelled last minute, with many workers who were expected to work five shifts, being left with two. 

A spokesperson for Amazon explained that the company 'set productivity targets objectively' and they were based on previous work by the employees, and that workers were encouraged to use the bathroom whenever they needed. 

There are about 200 workers engaged at the Melbourne warehouse, with the majority of them being migrants.

Amazon assured Fairfax that their staff were a mixture of 'permanent and agency staff' at their facilities. 

Daily Mail Australia has contacted Amazon, the National Workers Union and the Adecco group for comment. 

Those with the job of picking items from the warehouse are distributed handheld electronic scanners that direct them to products to collect and load onto carts (Pictured: An Amazon warehouse in the UK)

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Yet, at the company’s two ‘fulfillment centres’ in Melbourne‘s outer south-east and Moorebank in Sydney, there are claims that workers are being...

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