{"id":1034888,"date":"2026-09-12T11:49:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T06:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1034888"},"modified":"2026-09-12T11:49:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T06:19:22","slug":"amazon-accused-in-proposed-nationwide-class-action-of-violating-federal-and-new-york-worker-protection-laws-claims-that-company-regularly-fires-pregnant-employees-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/12\/amazon-accused-in-proposed-nationwide-class-action-of-violating-federal-and-new-york-worker-protection-laws-claims-that-company-regularly-fires-pregnant-employees-who\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon accused in proposed nationwide class action of violating Federal and New York worker-protection laws; claims that company regularly fires pregnant employees who &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon is facing a proposed nationwide class action lawsuit that accuses the retailer of systematically discriminating against thousands of pregnant employees. According to a report by the news agency Reuters, this includes the e-tailer giant firing some workers after they allegedly took too much time off.<br \/>\n\u200b<br \/>\nFour former warehouse employees filed the lawsuit in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, alleging that Amazon routinely denied pregnant workers basic accommodations such as chairs, bathroom and water breaks and time off for prenatal appointments. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon is facing a proposed nationwide class action lawsuit that accuses the retailer of systematically discriminating against thousands of pregnant employees. According to a report by the news agency Reuters, this includes the e-tailer giant firing some workers after they allegedly took too much time off. \u200b Four former warehouse employees filed the lawsuit in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, alleging that Amazon routinely denied pregnant workers basic accommodations such as chairs, bathroom and water breaks and time off for prenatal appointments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034891,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034888\/revisions\/1034891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}