Amazon Fails to Ax All Claims From NY Worker’s Gender Bias Suit

Amazon must face a former employee’s gender bias claims under state and city law after failing to convince a federal judge in New York to nix those allegations alongside the worker’s federal claims.

Anna Molosky said her supervisors at Amazon Web Services Inc. verbally discouraged her from seeking promotions and steered her toward design roles rather than leadership or technical positions because she is a woman. Their alleged remarks are enough to advance her claims under New York and New York City human rights laws thanks to a 2019 change in what the state statute requires, the US District Court ...