All the headlines from our Amazon Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 26 2024 // An appeals court in Washington, D.C. revived the district’s lawsuit against Amazon.com Inc on Thursday, saying it plausibly claimed the online retailer’s pricing policies illegally stifle competition.The...
Aug 23 2024 // Amazon.com Inc. was legally the boss of a group of subcontracted delivery drivers, US labor board prosecutors have concluded, rejecting the company’s claims that workers in its sprawling delivery network aren’t...
Jul 30 2024 // Amazon.com is responsible for hazardous products sold by third-party sellers on its platform under the federal safety law and bears legal responsibility for their recall, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said on...
Jul 29 2024 // A case alleging that Amazon.com Inc. exposed warehouse workers to injuries has been dismissed for lack of evidence, the company said in a statement Thursday.The Washington state Department of Labor and Industries cited the...
Jul 17 2024 // An Amazon distribution center worker in Virginia whose job entailed repetitive lifting and stowing of items all day and who suffered rotator cuff tears has been denied workers’ compensation benefits because she...
Jul 16 2024 // A New York federal judge has ordered Amazon.com to comply with a subpoena from a U.S. civil rights agency investigating claims that the online retailer discriminated against pregnant warehouse workers.U.S. District Judge...
Jun 19 2024 // Amazon failed to meet requirements of California’s Warehouse Quotas law at warehouses in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties, according to the Labor Commissioner’s Office.The ofice cited Amazon.com Services...
Jun 13 2024 // Thousands of delivery drivers filed legal claims against Amazon, alleging the company’s classification of them as independent contractors instead of employees has led to unpaid wages and other financial losses.Two...
Jun 7 2024 // Amazon is facing a one billion-pound ($1.3 billion) collective lawsuit from British retailers who allege that the online marketplace misused their data to boost its own market share and profits.The British Independent...
Mar 28 2024 // MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday let stand a lower court ruling that declared some delivery drivers for Amazon were employees as the state argued, not independent contractors as the online...
Feb 20 2024 // Amazon.com has joined rocket maker SpaceX and grocery chain Trader Joe’s in claiming that a U.S. labor agency’s in-house enforcement proceedings violate the U.S. Constitution, as the retail giant faces scores...
Feb 12 2024 // Amazon.com Inc. allegedly retaliated against three female employees — including firing one and placing another on a performance plan — after they sued the company for discrimination, the plaintiffs said in new court...
Feb 9 2024 // Amazon.com was sued in a proposed U.S. class action accusing the online retailer of violating a consumer protection law by steering hundreds of millions of shoppers to higher-priced items in order to earn extra...
Jan 30 2024 // JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi lawmakers met in special session last week and quickly approved job training money and other state incentives to support a plan by Amazon Web Services to spend $10 billion to build two...
Jan 26 2024 // Climate change is the main culprit for a record drought in the Amazon rainforest that has drained rivers, killed endangered dolphins and upended life for millions of people in the region, according to a study released on...
Jan 25 2024 // Amazon has pulled the plug on its UK home insurance venture – a comparison website – after launching in October 2022.“Over the last year, we have been evaluating various businesses and programs, and as a part of...
Jan 23 2024 // French regulator CNIL said on Tuesday it had fined Amazon France Logistique 32 million euros ($35 million) for what the CNIL said was an “excessively intrusive” surveillance system set up to monitor the...
Dec 11 2023 // Amazon.com asked a federal court on Friday to dismiss a U.S. government antitrust lawsuit which accuses the company of using illegal strategies to boost profits at its online retail empire, including an algorithm that...
Nov 3 2023 // Amazon.com used a series of illegal strategies to boost profits at its online retail empire, including an algorithm that pushed up prices U.S. households paid by more than $1 billion, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission...
Oct 26 2023 // More than two-thirds of Amazon.com Inc. US warehouse workers surveyed by researchers reported that they took unpaid time off to recover from pain or exhaustion sustained on the job.The new national study, published...