E-commerce giant Amazon has opened a probe into allegations of harassment and discrimination at its cloud-computing unit Amazon Web Services (AWS), after more than 550 workers signed a petition, blaming AWS for its “underlying culture of systemic discrimination, harassment, bullying, and bias against women and under-represented groups.”<\/p>\n
The petition alleged that Amazon’s system to investigate claims of discrimination is not fair, objective or transparent, reports The Washington Post.<\/p>\n
“The petition cites a lawsuit filed in May by Cindy Warner, a gay executive in Amazon Web Services professional services business, who accused a manager of making homophobic comments and alleged she was fired in retaliation,” the report said on Friday.<\/p>\n
The petition also refers to a “LinkedIn post last summer by Laudon Williams, a former employee of the group, who wrote that he left the company over concerns about gender and sexual-orientation discrimination”.<\/p>\n
It calls for an independent probe of “employee concerns that there is a non-inclusive culture” as well as the creation of an employee council to work with an external investigator.<\/p>\n
However, an Amazon spokesperson told The Verge that the company had conducted a thorough investigation of Warner’s complaints, and “we have found her allegations to be unsubstantiated.”<\/p>\n
Warner wrote on Medium. “I will pursue my claims as far as I need to in order to show Amazon how wrong management’s actions were. My wonderful colleagues at AWS will not be intimidated or silenced, either.”<\/p>\n
In May, five women sued Amazon, alleging race and gender discrimination.<\/p>\n
The petition was sent to new Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, the former head of AWS, and current AWS chief executive Adam Selipsky, according to the Post.<\/p>\n
Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos had acknowledged in April that the company needs to “do a better job for our employees.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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