Race discrimination lawsuit says Amazon de-levels employees of color By Khristopher J. Brooks
Updated on: March 3, 2021 / 10:28 AM / MoneyWatch
A Black woman who has worked at Amazon since 2017 is suing the online retailer and cloud services giant for racial discrimination, alleging the company purposely doesn t promote employees of color and even pays them less than their White counterparts.
Lawyers representing Charlotte Newman said in the lawsuit filed Monday in Washington D.C., that Newman interviewed for a senior manager job at Amazon after obtaining a master s degree in business administration from Harvard University.
Newman was offered a role at Amazon Web Services that was one pay grade below the job she had interviewed for even though she was qualified for the senior manager job at the company s cloud-services division, her lawsuit alleges. She took the job anyway and was then asked to perform senior manager duties, the lawsuit states.