Four workers at an Oklahoma City Amazon fulfillment center report that the company routinely takes months to honor doctor’s orders for lighter assignments for pregnant people, putting employees in the position of either risking miscarriage or taking unpaid leave and facing the prospect of being fired.\n
report that the company routinely takes months to honor doctor’s orders for lighter assignments for pregnant people, putting employees in the position of either risking miscarriage or taking unpaid leave and facing the prospect of being fired.Vice that in June, she presented her managers at Amazon a “modified duty” letter from her doctor advising that she not lift weights greater than 15 pounds.
Three other employees who wished to remain anonymous shared similar stories, with one pregnant worker telling Vice’s Motherboard that her doctor-ordered accommodation request for a 20-pound weight limit for pushing, pulling, and lifting along with a 10-minute break was only honored after multiple visits to the emergency room for vaginal bleeding.
“I wish I could reach out to Jeff Bezos to tell him... the conditions that pregnant women are under make us choose between risking our baby or not getting paid and losing everything,” one of the Amazon workers told Vice. However, Bezos is likely well aware, as last year, seven former employees the company, claiming that during their pregnancies, they were fired after requesting the company honor similar accommodations from doctors—or even grant them regular bathroom breaks.
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