Amazon Accused of Illegally Deducting Time From Striking Workers

Amazon.com Inc. allegedly deducted unpaid time-off from the accounts of workers who participated in a strike to protest working conditions at a facility in Minnesota, National Labor Relations Board prosecutors said.

Amazon violated federal labor law by deducting the time off because workers were on strike and to discourage others from banding together to improve their job conditions, agency lawyers alleged in a complaint filed Tuesday.

Workers who run out of unpaid time-off hours in their account can face termination, according to the policy excerpted in the complaint.

The charges stem from workplace activism at the Amazon fulfillment center in ...