beep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-25 days agoLawsuit: Amazon refused to give pregnant workers bathroom breaks and refused to give them permission to sit or use a chair and later fired them after a pregnancy-related hospitalizationwww.abetterbalance.orgexternal-linkmessage-square89linkfedilinkarrow-up1762arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up1758arrow-down1external-linkLawsuit: Amazon refused to give pregnant workers bathroom breaks and refused to give them permission to sit or use a chair and later fired them after a pregnancy-related hospitalizationwww.abetterbalance.orgbeep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-25 days agomessage-square89linkfedilinkfile-text
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minus-squarechaitae3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·3 days agoThis reddit-originated post is being reposted every so often, and every time I remind people that firing pregnant women is a criminal offence in most European countries and no sane oppressor entrepreneur would do it.
minus-squareTeaWithDani@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 days agoAmazon left Quebec after a warehouse unionized. Not legal either, Walmart got successfully sued over something similar in the past. They still did it. On the plus side, Amazon left.
minus-squaresetVeryLoud(true);@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoGood riddance. I love giving the middle finger to the empty warehouse with the shadow of an Amazon ensign when I drive past it.
minus-squareandros_rex@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 days agoIt’s not legal in the U.S. either. The issue is that the EEOC is essentially useless.
This reddit-originated post is being reposted every so often, and every time I remind people that firing pregnant women is a criminal offence in most European countries and no sane
oppressorentrepreneur would do it.Amazon left Quebec after a warehouse unionized. Not legal either, Walmart got successfully sued over something similar in the past. They still did it.
On the plus side, Amazon left.
Good riddance. I love giving the middle finger to the empty warehouse with the shadow of an Amazon ensign when I drive past it.
It’s not legal in the U.S. either.
The issue is that the EEOC is essentially useless.