One of the people injured at the New Orleans truck attack was denied leave by Amazon.
She had her foot run over, and she was shot, and Jeff Bezos' horror decided that this was insufficient for her not to go back to work at their warehouse.
This has been fixed, but only because it got press coverage:
A warehouse worker at an Amazon facility in Mobile, Alabama, who was struck by a truck and shot in the New Orleans New Year's Day deadly terror attack, was initially denied medical leave by the internet mega-giant, possibly due to an HR mix-up.
Alexis Scott-Windham was celebrating the New Year with friends on Bourbon Street when a pickup truck mounted the sidewalk and rammed a crowd shortly after 3 am local time. She was treated in hospital after the back of her right foot was run over by the vehicle, and she was also shot in the foot. The bullet remains in her limb while doctors work out the best course of action to remove it while she recovers at home.
The regional Times-Picayune newspaper interviewed Scott-Windham, who revealed she had been denied medical leave by the Amazon warehouse where she works for a medical checkup in two weeks' time. The mother feared if she was absent from work for that appointment, she would lose her job.
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The Register asked Amazon to confirm the story, and the tech goliath said Scott-Windham is, contrary to concerns, able to take paid time off to recover from the attack.
"We’ve reached out to Ms Scott-Windham to offer her our full support, including pay, as she recovers from this senseless act of violence," a spokesperson told us. "We wish her a full recovery and look forward to welcoming her back to work once she's able."
It's believed Scott-Windham requested the wrong type of leave, leading to it being turned down, or so people familiar with the matter have claimed.
"People familiar with the matter," probably means someone from Amazon's public relations office.
Don't buy Amazon. If they fuck their employees, they will fuck you.
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