Amazon is facing a class action lawsuit that accuses it of violating state and federal civil rights laws by intentionally working harder to protect its managers, who are disproportionately white, from COVID-19, while not taking the same precautions with its overwhelmingly Black, Brown, and immigrant warehouse workers.
"Today was a huge day for all essential workers," Smalls told Business Insider, adding "don't be afraid to speak your truth to power."of the company's early pandemic response. But Smalls claimed in the lawsuit that, at the time, Amazon wasn't taking employees' temperatures, providing PPE, enforcing social distancing, or following public health officials' cleaning guidelines — and after his coworker tested positive, Smalls claimed he was the one who requested paid time off for himself and his coworkers to quarantine after Amazon failed to act.revealed that Amazon's top executives had planned to mount a PR campaign against Smalls to discredit him.
In the lawsuit, Smalls alleged that the memo showed "top level Amazon executives, including CEO Jeff Bezos, perpetuated the company's pervasive discriminatory animus against its minority workers."
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Amazon started paying workers an extra $2 per hour in March as hazard pay, but dropped the practice in May, and offers limited sick pay beyond a two-week period for employees who test positive for COVID-19. Scrooge in real life.....