Amazon Beats Black Supervisor’s Race Bias Suit Over Covid Safety

A Black former Amazon.com Services LLC management associate failed to link his termination to his race or to his complaints of racial bias in the company’s Covid-19 safety protocols, and he lacks standing to represent other minority workers on his proposed class claims, a federal judge in Brooklyn ruled.

Christian Smalls claimed that Amazon didn’t provide the same personal protective equipment and other safety measures to the mostly minority line workers at the Staten Island fulfillment center where he worked as it did to other employees, including its predominantly White management. These claims also failed because he never alleged the ...