Amazon Attendance Policy Punishes Disability, Lawsuit Says (1)

Amazon.com Services LLC’s attendance policy discriminates against workers who seek reasonable accommodations for their disabilities, a proposed class action filed Thursday says.

The Amazon.com Inc. subsidiary uses automated systems to discipline and even terminate employees who miss work, even when those absences fall under state and federal laws prohibiting discrimination against workers with disabilities, according to the complaint filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Plaintiff Cayla Lyster, who has the connective tissue disorder Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, started working for Amazon in 2022 and says she needed a chair and other accommodations when the company ...