Five women from various states filed lawsuits against Amazon Wednesday, alleging racism, sexism and discrimination based on their sexuality while working for the tech giant.
Four of those who filed lawsuits are women of color, while one is gay, Law360 reports. Most of the alleged discrimination was carried out by white men.
The women are all represented by law firm Wigdor LLP, and allege violations of federal and state anti-discrimination, anti-retaliation and equal pay laws.
In one case, Plaintiff Tiffany Gordwin, a Black woman who works in human resources for Amazon in Arizona, said she was treated as lesser by her white superiors. She says she was skipped over for promotions and told off for raising discimination complaints.
Pearl Thomas, a Black woman who also works in HR for Amazon in Arizona, said she was called the “n-word” by her supervisor.
Diana Cuervo, a former Amazon area manager in Seattle who identifies as Latinx, alleges she experienced racism about her heritage and was fired when she complained.
Emily Sousa, an Asian American Amazon shift manager alleges in a Delaware complaint she was sexually harassed by a male manager who was obsessed with her heritage. When she rebuffed him, she was demoted and transferred, she alleges.
Finally, Cindy Warner, a gay woman who worked for Amazon Web Services in California says she was fired after complaining about demeaning behavior in the workplace.
Amazon told Law360 it was looking into the claims and had found no evidence to support them.
Meanwhile, Amazon has been delivered a lawsuit after allegedly failing to give employees scheduled breaks, not paying them for missed breaks and not reimbursing them for business calls made on private phones.
The proposed class action lawsuit was filed in San Francisco on March 26, with lead plaintiff Lovenia Scott accusing the online retail giant of breaching labor laws by denying her breaks in addition to skimping and being late on payments to her.
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The five plaintiffs are all represented by Jeanne M. Christensen, Lawrence J. Pearson, Alfredo J. Pelicci and Anthony G. Bizien of Wigdor LLP. Three of the plaintiffs also have additional counsel: Gordwin is represented by Ty. D Frankel of Bonnett Fairbourn Friedman & Balint PC; Sousa is represented by Michael D. Allen and Emily A. Biffen of Allen & Associates; and Warren is represented by Omar H. Bengali of Girard Bengali APC.
The Amazon discrimination lawsuits are Gordwin v. Amazon.com Inc., Case No. 2:21-cv-00888, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona; Cuervo v. Amazon.com Inc. et al., Case No. 2:21-cv-00660, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington; Thomas v. Amazon.com Inc. et al., Case No. 2:21-cv-00661, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington; and Warner v. Amazon.com Inc., Case No. 5:21-cv-00866, in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.
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6 thoughts onAmazon Faces 5 New Lawsuits Nationwide Alleging Racism, Sexism by Male Supervisors
I worked at Whole Foods in Berkley. California. I have emails from my Supervisor, who I reported to HR for singling me out and speaking to me in a demeaning way when female employees were around. He would send emails to me speaking in an unprofessional matter and threaten me. Amazon HR did nothing so I quit.
USA parkway in Nv is as it is in Fernley,NV very behind the times and laws regarding employment practices. The stories are seriously violation and rights and the danger is real when it comes to employees being subject mass killings. It is like walking into a prison, security is for theft and for sure detector of guns.
Amazon in Fernley NV, has moved. To Reno 30 miles west. Was informing proof of Diploma or GED to get hired. I was not surprised at Christmas they hired everyone and anyone. Would pay travel and referral for holidays. They would even hire homeless and hard core street people. I was very offended and fernley is a small town with ignorance in the management and OSHA laws. I felt discrimination and classification of hiring policy. I seen same harassment at similar wherhouse. They exploit employees using temporary service to keep employees from getting benefits and to exploit the labor and overtime. It is slavery and industrial exploitation of labor and hiring and firing practices are deceptive this is same for Tesla.
I worked for Amazon in three different buildings experience racism, sexual advances and comments by upper level management, was called stupid and a idiot told I didn’t know what I was doing. Denied breaks and lunches filed complaints with all of this and got backlash each time. They often used intimidation or threats of being fired when I brought up issues of not allowing us to use the bathroom or getting water because the warehouse was 105. When I brought up safety issues they put me on paid leave land made false accusations fired me then did not pay me correct so they issued me another letter with the date they fired me and changed it to avoid paying me penalties. They often threatened that you would be fired if you did not clock in early. They would allow men to do things over women
Please add me…I was an employee of amazon from February 2019. – august 2020
I dealt with alot of socialization and racism …it wasn’t the collegues….it was the employers
..and supervisor….place was Soo hectic…that the entire employees….called this one supervisor satan…..and this was the only one open during the covid 19 because the rest of the amazons were closed…down….I remember 17 of us including me that were terminated from Amazon….in August…and 3 days before termination saw a new group of new hires immediately…..and all 17 of us were making complaints….but the truth of the matter is…when the head of the team is narccistic…..17 of us including me were fired on august 26th 2020 from Amazon…..I wish the others saw this add
.because we don’t keep in contact no more….
Please add me