Amazon illegally fired employees who spoke out about conditions, board finds
“We support every employee’s right to criticize their employer’s working conditions, said an Amazon spokesperson
Jaci Anderson said to
The New York Times. “We terminated these employees not for talking publicly about working conditions, safety or sustainability but, rather, for repeatedly violating internal policies.”
NLRB, an independent government agency responsible for enforcing labor laws, found that the employee’s claims had merit.
Emily Cunningham and
Maren Costa said they were fired for supporting individuals who protested against unsafe warehouse conditions due to COVID-19 and because they spoke against the company’s climate policies. They worked as designers at Amazon’s Seattle headquarters, per the
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Amazon sued for revoking job offers from people who tested positive for weed
This is just one of the many recent lawsuits filed against Amazon
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A New York City man has filed a class-action lawsuit against Amazon after his job offer was revoked after he tested positive for marijuana during a drug test.
According to
the Daily News, in the lawsuit,
Michael Thomas said he was offered a position at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island last November as a package sorter. After not hearing from the company for more than a month, Thomas called them only to discover that he was removed from further consideration. The job, which pays $17.25 per hour, was contingent upon the results of the test.
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But sources have claimed that she actually turned herself in and was ready to face the charges against her when she landed on Monday
US investigators are said to be confident that putting pressure on Coronel will finally make her turn on her husband, Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán
They believe she has information that could bring down the Sinaloa cartel
Coronel and Guzman married when she was a teenage beauty queen in 2007