{"id":38064,"date":"2021-07-23T15:22:49","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T22:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=38064"},"modified":"2021-07-23T18:23:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T01:23:14","slug":"amazon-employees-petition-company-to-investigate-discrimination-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=38064","title":{"rendered":"Amazon employees petition company to investigate discrimination allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An internal petition circulated by Amazon employees urges the company to appoint an external investigator to review allegations of discrimination following a series of lawsuits against the Seattle-based tech giant, according to a copy of the petition obtained by The Hill.<\/p>\n<p>The authors of the petition received a pledge from Amazon Web Services (AWS) CEO Adam Selipsky to launch the outside investigation, Amazon confirmed Friday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/zszdvgzjfrrkcgcrkbsffkddfzkqrzrttlfjgwqrmbzdwr_xbjdrrhvhtdbvjgjcbjv.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/zszdvgzjfrrkcgcrkbsffkddfzkqrzrttlfjgwqrmbzdwr_xbjdrrhvhtdbvjgjcbjv.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1627166146415000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH-zIbuV2Jw848hb2cNjUeL--uPkA\">The Washington Post first reported<\/a>\u00a0Friday on the petition and the response from Selipsky. The petition was signed by more than 550 employees, according to the Post.<\/p>\n<p>Selipsky said the company has hired an outside firm to investigate and that he will \u201cpersonally review their independent findings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI share your passion for ensuring that our workplace is inclusive and free of bias and unfair treatment. I can tell you we are committed to that outcome, as well as to specifically investigating any incident or practice that is inappropriate,\u201d he wrote, according to a copy of the email shared with The Hill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An internal petition circulated by Amazon&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38065,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38064\/revisions\/38065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}