Amazon Seeks to Escape General Order to Obey Federal Labor Law

Amazon.com Inc. is fighting a federal judge’s order requiring the e-commerce giant to comply with federal labor law in connection with allegations that the company illegally fired a worker for his organizing activities.

Amazon will assert during oral argument Thursday at the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit that the judge overstepped her authority with a cease-and-desist order broadly directing the company to do what the National Labor Relations Act already compels.

The order came in response to a 2022 request from the National Labor Relations Board for the court to require Amazon to rehire the worker. The ...