An Amazon warehouse employee who needed surgery to repair two work-related hernias was fired for “non-attendance” while he recuperated at home from the operation, according to a federal civil rights lawsuit obtained by The Independent.
Although Las Vegas resident Lashone Brown had been granted official medical leave, his complaint says Amazon’s automated attendance system misclassified his absences as unexcused, and “automatically terminated” him five days into his approved two-week recovery period.
