Amazon Error on Covid’s End Means Race Bias Suit OK, Worker Says

A former employee suing Amazon.com Inc. for alleged classwide bias against Black and Hispanic fulfillment center workers in the provision of Covid-19 safety protections says in a Thursday filing to a New York federal judge the company jumped the gun in declaring the pandemic mostly over in its bid to moot the suit.

The “changed circumstances” that counsel for Amazon cited in a July 12 letter supplementing the company’s motion to dismiss “no longer obtains,” Christian Smalls says, because of the Delta variant’s rise. The company’s attorneys said his request for an injunction against the unequal protections at the Staten ...