Amazon Weighs Labor Risk When Probing Employee Misconduct

Amazon.com Inc. is weighing whether to investigate allegations of internal misconduct due to the risk of violating labor laws, a senior company lawyer said.

“More aggression from the” National Labor Relations Board “particularly impacts internal investigations where it could theoretically touch on protected concerted activity,” said Lee Langston, Amazon’s corporate counsel for business conduct and ethics, during a legal conference Wednesday.

The Biden administration labor board’s expanded interpretation of what types of employer behavior stifle employees’ workplace rights may prevent Amazon from even starting an internal review, said Langston, who oversees internal investigations for the company’s one million North ...