Amazon worker sues company, claiming race and gender bias in corporate hires

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Amazon.com Inc. was sued for allegedly discriminating against Black and female workers in hiring employees for its corporate offices.

Amazon.com Inc. is being sued for allegedly discriminating against Black and female workers in hiring employees for its corporate offices.

Amazon’s lack of racial and gender diversity in its corporate ranks is common throughout the technology industry. Most of the Seattle e-commerce company’s workforce diversity is in its blue-collar warehouses, where products are packed and shipped to customers. Newman says many of her colleagues observed a “consistent practice of paying Black employees less than similarly situated white employees.” They also witnessed “a near-total lack of Black representation in and very few women in the upper echelons of the group’s leadership,” according to the suit.

But Black and Latino managers are underrepresented at Amazon, based on the country’s general population, and Asian workers are overrepresented. White managers, at about 56%, are about equal to their share in the non-Hispanic U.S. population.

 

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