{"id":765484,"date":"2026-09-09T22:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T22:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/765484\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T22:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T22:16:09","slug":"lawsuit-amazon-refused-to-give-pregnant-workers-bathroom-breaks-and-chairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/765484\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit: Amazon refused to give pregnant workers bathroom breaks and chairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The state of New Jersey previously sued Amazon in October 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.njoag.gov\/attorney-general-platkin-and-division-on-civil-rights-file-complaint-against-amazon-alleging-widespread-pattern-of-pregnancy-and-disability-discrimination\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">alleging<\/a> widespread discrimination against pregnant workers and employees with disabilities. Amazon\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ir.aboutamazon.com\/news-release\/news-release-details\/2026\/Amazon-com-Announces-Second-Quarter-Results\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a>\u00a0$200.6 billion in net sales in Q2 2026 and a net income of $62.6 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon says it approved 99.9% of pregnancy requests<\/p>\n<p>Amazon said in a statement provided to Ars that the claims in the New York-based workers\u2019 lawsuit \u201ccontain inaccuracies and omit important details\u201d and \u201cdo not reflect the full facts of these cases or the reality of our extensive accommodations process\u2026. While we\u2019re not able to discuss individual employee details, we have conducted thorough internal reviews of each case referenced.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amazon said it \u201cstrive[s] to provide a safe and supportive environment for everyone, which includes supporting tens of thousands of employees with pregnancy accommodations each year. In the past year, more than 99.9 percent of pregnancy related accommodations requests have been approved,\u201d including \u201cadditional breaks, modified duty, or seated roles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amazon also said it provides \u201cup to 20 weeks of fully paid leave for eligible birthing parents, including four weeks of pre-partum leave and a ramp-back program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barclay and Green worked at an Amazon warehouse in Rochester, New York. Hatch had a job processing customer returns in a Lancaster fulfillment center, while Parks was a delivery associate at an Amazon delivery station in Rochester.<\/p>\n<p>The former Amazon workers are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abetterbalance.org\/nationwide-class-action-against-amazon-claims-abusive-treatment-of-pregnant-warehouse-workers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">represented by A Better Balance<\/a>, a nonprofit advocacy group. The lawsuit seeks to represent a nationwide class of Amazon workers and a subclass of New York-based Amazon workers. The four named plaintiffs want reinstatement, back pay, compensation for lost benefits, and punitive damages.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon \u201cdid not permit her to have a chair\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amazon allowed Barclay to switch from a \u201cpicker\u201d to a \u201cpacker\u201d role, but she \u201cwas still forced to stand for long periods, squat repetitively, and lift heavy boxes,\u201d the lawsuit said. The lawsuit alleged that even when \u201cBarclay dutifully submitted medical documentation from her provider to support her original requests,\u201d Amazon denied some of the requests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The state of New Jersey previously sued Amazon in October 2025, alleging widespread discrimination against pregnant workers and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-765484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}