All the headlines from our Amazon Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 10 2022 // Hundreds of Amazon.com Inc.’s UK workers are planning walkouts in the coming days after logistics workers clashed with managers over pay.A series of walkouts and slowdown protests at at least seven facilities in...
Jul 26 2022 // Online marketplace Amazon can be sued under New Jersey product liability law for defective products sold by third-party sellers on its website.The federal district court in New Jersey sided with the New Jersey...
Jul 14 2022 // Amazon runs an auto insurance program for its delivery service providers, but if those DSPs choose to buy their insurance from competitors instead, Amazon is fine with that.In fact, Amazon might prefer it if their...
Jul 13 2022 // Amazon worker Gerald Bryson had hand-counted thousands of items in his warehouse’s inventory over three days when his manager showed him a “Supportive Feedback Document.”Bryson had made 22 errors, the...
Jun 17 2022 // The California Supreme Court on Wednesday left intact a ruling that allows customers to sue Amazon.com for failing to warn buyers that some products it sells may contain hazardous substances such as mercury.The court...
Jun 3 2022 // Amazon.com Inc. is obstructing a congressional investigation of a deadly December tornado by failing to provide documents about emergency preparedness and communications with workers during the storm, according to a letter...
Jun 2 2022 // Amazon.com Inc. workers seeking to recoup expenses they incurred while working from home during the pandemic moved a step closer to trial when a California judge threw out the e-commerce giant’s request to dismiss...
May 18 2022 // The New York State Division of Human Rights has filed a complaint against Amazon.com Inc. accusing the online retailer of discriminating against pregnant and disabled workers at its worksites, Governor Kathy Hochul said on...
May 11 2022 // A New York state appeals court on Tuesday dismissed state Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit accusing Amazon.com Inc. of failing to adequately protect thousands of workers at two New York City facilities against...
May 5 2022 // The mother of a man who was killed in December when a tornado slammed into an Amazon facility in Illinois said on Tuesday that her son was only in the building because he was called into work on his day off.“It...
May 4 2022 // NEW YORK –– A former Amazon.com Inc. employee sued the online retailer on Monday, saying it wrongly fired her and demanded she repay wages after she contracted “long COVID.”Brittany Hope, 29, a...
Apr 28 2022 // Amazon.com Inc. should better prepare workers for extreme weather events, according to federal regulators who investigated a deadly tornado strike on a company warehouse in Edwardsville, Illinois.The storm ripped through...
Apr 20 2022 // A judge has ruled Amazon must reinstate a former warehouse employee who was fired in the early days of the pandemic, saying the company “unlawfully” terminated the worker who led a protest calling for Amazon to...
Apr 18 2022 // In his first letter to Amazon shareholders, CEO Andy Jassy offered a defense of the wages and benefits the company gives its warehouse workers while also vowing to improve injury rates inside the facilities.Jassy, who took...
Apr 11 2022 // Jeff Bezos went on 60 Minutes in 2013 and pledged to fill the skies with a fleet of delivery drones that could zip parcels to customers’ homes in 30 minutes. Asked when this future would arrive, the Amazon.com Inc....
Apr 7 2022 // Follows SEC backing for vote after guidance change Filed by retail activist platform Tulipshare Amazon.com Inc., the world’s biggest retailer, will face a shareholder vote calling for an independent audit of its...
Apr 5 2022 // The U.S. House Oversight Committee is opening an investigation into Amazon.com’s labor practices during extreme weather events, following the death of six workers during a swarm of tornados last year. In a letter...
Apr 4 2022 // Amazon is facing a willful serious violation and a $60,000 fine for knowingly putting workers at risk of injury at its fulfillment center in Kent, Washington.A Washington Department of Labor & Industries inspection at...
Mar 24 2022 // Amazon is facing a willful serious violation and a $60,000 fine for knowingly putting workers at risk of injury at its fulfillment center in Kent, Washington.A Washington Department of Labor & Industries inspection at...
Mar 9 2022 // Five members of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee have asked the U.S. Department Of Justice (DOJ) to investigate Amazon.com Inc for “potentially criminal conduct” by the company and some of its senior...