Current and former Black Amazon employees claim racial discrimination
One lawsuit alleges Amazon has “a pattern of hiring Black employees at lower levels than comparable white employees.” Author: Christin Ayers Updated: 10:16 PM PDT April 5, 2021
SEATTLE Chanin Kelly-Rae said the lack of ethnic diversity in upper-level management at Amazon was one of the first things that struck her when she walked onto the company’s Seattle campus for the first time.
“The only Black people that I saw every day were either opening doors or cleaning floors,” said Kelly-Rae. “As a woman that happens to identify as Black or African American, I was never as consciously aware of feeling very detached or different in the space as I was at the Amazon corporate campus.”
Lawsuit: Amazon Manager Claims Racial and Gender Discrimination, Sexual Assault, Harassment
1 Mar 2021
A black senior manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS) is suing the tech giant and two of its executives, alleging race and gender discrimination, violation of the Equality Pay Act, as well as sexual assault and harassment.
Charlotte Newman, who was once an adviser to Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), filed a lawsuit against the tech giant in district court in Washington, DC on Monday, according to a report by Vox.
Newman told Vox’s Recode that the discrimination started when she was first hired as a public policy manager and that it involved her being denied a promotion for more than a year, despite her performing aspects of a more senior role. She was eventually elevated to senior manager, more than two and a half years after being hired.