Amazon Loses Fight Over EEOC Pregnancy Accommodations Probe (1)

Amazon.com Services LLC must provide the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission with specific information regarding how it accommodates pregnant workers at five fulfillment centers, a federal judge ruled.

The ruling Thursday granted the agency’s motion to enforce a subpoena issued to Amazon after the company repeatedly failed to produce information in the manner requested for an investigation into potential pregnancy discrimination.

Amazon “turned over more than 200,000 pages of documents that it extracted from its database” and converted into PDF format, but it refused to indicate whether individual accommodation requests had been denied or granted, arguing that required an overly subjective ...