Amazon Defeats Bias Lawsuit by Black Worker Placed on Improvement Plan

Amazon.com won the dismissal on Tuesday of a lawsuit accusing the online retailer of discriminating against a Black former employee by reducing her duties and putting her on a performance improvement plan.U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian in Manhattan said former Amazon Music event producer Keesha Anderson failed to show Amazon gave her a poor performance rating as a pretext to discriminate, or waited until Black and Hispanic women became her supervisors before questioning her work. Subramanian also said ...