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.”