Lawsuit accuses Amazon of ‘systemic’ racism in corporate offices
By Jonathan Stempel and Jeffrey Dastin
(Reuters) – A supervisor at Amazon.com Inc sued the online retailer for discrimination on Monday, saying it hires Black of us for lower positions and promotes them additional slowly than white workers, and that she was subjected to harassment.
The lawsuit from Charlotte Newman, a enterprise enchancment head at Amazon Web Services who’s Black, said the corporate suffers from a “systemic pattern of insurmountable discrimination,” regardless of its pledge to battle racism and statements of solidarity from Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos.
Seattle-based Amazon had no speedy comment. The criticism was filed in Washington, D.C., federal courtroom docket.
Newman, a Harvard Business School graduate and former adviser to U.S. Senator Cory Booker, said Amazon delayed by 2-1/2 years her rise to senior supervisor by hiring her …