Overview
- Attorney General Matthew Platkin filed the civil-rights complaint in Essex County Superior Court, alleging discrimination against pregnant employees and workers with disabilities at New Jersey warehouses.
- The suit says Amazon denied or delayed reasonable accommodations, placed workers on unpaid leave, and terminated or disciplined some after they requested help or failed to meet strict productivity quotas.
- The filing follows a New Jersey Division on Civil Rights investigation that reviewed thousands of cases, including a two-year span with more than 27,000 accommodation requests at facilities employing roughly 50,000 workers.
- New Jersey seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive damages, civil penalties, injunctive relief to change company policies, and monitoring and reporting requirements for five years.
- Amazon rejects the allegations as false, citing an approval rate above 99% for pregnancy accommodation requests since 2022 and paid-leave benefits; the action comes days after a separate state suit over Flex driver classification and amid ongoing federal scrutiny.