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Amazon Accused of Misusing Small Sellers’ Data in $1.3 Billion UK Lawsuit

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...

Wisconsin Supreme Court: Amazon Drivers Can Be Declared Employees

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...

Amazon Joins Companies Arguing NLRB Is Unconstitutional

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...

Amazon Staff Allege Retaliation in Pay Gap Discrimination Suit

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...

Amazon Steers Consumers to Higher-Priced Items, Lawsuit Claims

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...

Mississippi Lawmakers Approve Incentives for 2 Large Amazon Data Centers

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...

Climate Change Drives Amazon Rainforest’s Record Drought: Study

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...

Amazon Pulls Plug on UK Home Insurance Venture

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...

French Regulator Fines Amazon for ‘Intrusive’ Staff Surveillance

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...

Amazon Asks Judge to Dismiss FTC Lawsuit, Says No Consumer Harm Shown

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...

New FTC Court Filing: Amazon Made $1B Through Secret Price Algorithm

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...

Amazon Injuries More Widespread Than Thought, Study Says

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...

Nooses Found at Construction Site Lead to Lawsuit Against Amazon, Contractors

Oct 3 2023 // Five Black and Hispanic electricians who felt threatened when several nooses were found at an Amazon warehouse construction site in Connecticut have filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the company and two...

Update: FTC Sues Amazon.com for Breaking Antitrust Law and Harming Consumers

Sep 26 2023 // The U.S. Federal Trade Commission filed a long-awaited antitrust lawsuit against Amazon.com on Tuesday and asked the court to consider forcing the online retailer to sell assets as the government accuses Big Tech of...

FTC Poised to Sue Amazon for Antitrust Violations

Sep 25 2023 // The Federal Trade Commission is expected to sue Amazon.com Inc. for antitrust violations next week, according to people familiar with the matter – marking the agency’s fourth swipe at the online retail giant this...

Tile, Amazon Face Lawsuit From Stalking Victims Over Tracking Device Product

Aug 23 2023 // A tracking device called Tile may be effective in preventing its user from losing keys, a dog, or a purse, but it is also a tool used by stalkers, according to two women who have filed a proposed class-action lawsuit...

Amazon Again Cited by Regulators Over Worker Safety

Aug 4 2023 // The U.S. workplace safety regulator said Amazon.com Inc has subjected workers at yet another of its sprawling warehouses to hazardous conditions by imposing onerous production quotas and failing to provide proper medical...

Buffalo Supermarket Shooting Victims Sue Facebook, Amazon, Other Tech Giants

Jul 14 2023 // Tech and social media giants like Facebook, Amazon and Google bear responsibility for radicalizing the Buffalo supermarket shooter, who was fueled by racist conspiracy theories he encountered online, the victim’s...

Sanders Seeks Senate Probe Into Amazon’s Warehouse Safety Practices

Jun 23 2023 // Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has opened a Senate investigation into Amazon’s warehouse safety practices, the latest in a series of probes he’s initiated against big corporations in his role as chairman of a...

Fired Amazon Labor Organizer in Alabama Reinstated After Filing Complaint, Union Says

Jun 22 2023 // A union organizer who was fired by Amazon was reinstated by the company after she filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board, according to the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union.The union had said...