Overview
- Cayla Lyster, a Syracuse warehouse employee with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, filed the federal suit on Wednesday.
- She alleges Amazon delayed or denied simple adjustments such as a chair, asked improper medical questions, and put her on unpaid leave during review periods.
- The filing says unpaid time off was deducted, automatic warnings referenced negative UPT, and one unpaid leave lasted up to six weeks.
- The proposed class seeks to represent New York hourly logistics workers who sought accommodations over the past three years, requesting damages, injunctive relief and a jury trial.
- Amazon disputes the claims, citing individualized reviews by its Accommodations team; an EEOC finding this year reportedly found reasonable cause in Lyster’s charge, and New Jersey’s attorney general recently filed a related discrimination case.