The European Parliament’s employment committee has highlighted the need for regulating automated control of workers after visiting Amazon warehouses in Germany and Poland this week. The trip follows the committee’s hearing on working conditions in Amazon in January, where workers raised concerns about efficiency goals, safety, and surveillance using AI tools, which may be regulated more rigorously as a part of the upcoming act. According to a2023 surveyby UNI Europa, a labour union federation, about a half of Amazon’s employees said their work had a negative impact on their mental and physical health. Workers’ progress throughout the dayis usually watchedthrough security cameras, but also the work badges scanned in check points in various locations in the warehouse, and scanning devices used to identify products. In the city of Sosnowiec, home to one of Amazon’s Polish warehouses, employees are overworked by “constant pressure of being judged, which is very hard to cope with mentally,” Agata Wypiór, recently-named vice secretary of Amazon’s European Works Council and Solidarność union leader told EUobserver.