A Former Amazon Corporate Employee Claims She Was a Victim of ‘Draconian Employment’ Conditions

A former Amazon employee is suing the e-commerce giant, alleging that the company failed to provide her with reasonable accommodations for disabilities resulting from the impacts of long-Covid symptoms. Plaintiff Brittany Hope previously worked as a brand manager for The Drop, Amazon’s fashion line, a role that she was promoted to in December 2019. In a complaint filed Monday in a U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York, Hope claimed that Amazon refused to accept doctors’ notes that supported the need for an extended period of leave after contracting Covid-19 early on in the pandemic. Amazon ultimately fired Hope “when her struggles with long Covid made it challenging for her to be always on call by phone, email and text,” the complaint alleges. Hope also said that Amazon billed her $12,000 for a “purported salary overpayment” and claimed that she abandoned her job. As an office employee at Amazon, Hope claims in the suit that she was “subjected to the same draconian employment policies” that had previously been documented among Amazon’s warehouse staff in a New York Times article from 2021. According to this article, Amazon warehouse employees were often subjected to intense monitoring program and disciplined for unexcused pauses in

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