Amazon Fails to Ditch Chilean Worker’s National Origin Bias Case

Amazon Web Services is headed toward trial on a former employee’s allegations of national origin discrimination and retaliation after a federal judge rejected the company’s bid for an early exit.

The Chilean worker provided sufficient evidence that discrimination, or his repeated internal complaints about it, might have played a role in his firing from the Amazon.com Inc. unit, to merit taking his state and New York City anti-bias law claims to a jury, the US District Court for the Southern District of New York said Monday. Judge Colleen McMahon scheduled the trial May 11.

Plaintiff David Breitling worked on financial ...