Amazon, Delivery Partners Face Off Over Arbitration on Appeal

The Fourth Circuit pressed a woman who owns a company that provides delivery services for Amazon Logistics Inc. to explain why she should qualify as a transportation worker exempt from forced arbitration of a wage dispute.

Ahaji Amos and her company, Kirk Amos Delivery & Courier LLC, argued that the Amazon.com Inc. subsidiary’s contract with Kirk is actually an employment contract between Amos and Amazon. That makes Amos a transportation worker exempt from the Federal Arbitration Act, she and her company told a skeptical US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit panel Wednesday.

Amazon’s no stranger to circuit court ...