Four women are suing Amazon, saying it denied basic accommodations to pregnant warehouse workers and then fired them for taking time off anyway.
The class-action lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York, names Willamina Barclay, Kristina Green, Jennifer Hatch, and Dazaria Parks. All four worked at Amazon warehouses in New York between April 2025 and July 2026. According to the complaint, each asked for accommodations pregnancy law generally requires even in routine pregnancies: bathroom breaks, an extra 15-minute break, and the option to sit rather than stand. Amazon denied the requests, the lawsuit says, and when the women took medically necessary breaks or absences anyway, the company docked their limited bank of unpaid time off until it ran out - then fired them.
The complaint's specifics matter here: these are not exotic asks. Bathroom access and a chair are the kind of accommodations most workplaces grant without a lawsuit. That Amazon's warehouse system allegedly had no mechanism to handle them - only a depleting unpaid-leave clock that ends in termination - points to a scheduling and accommodation process built for throughput, not exceptions.
Amazon has faced years of scrutiny over warehouse working conditions, from injury rates to bathroom-break policies for its general workforce. This suit narrows that scrutiny to a legally protected group, and if certified as a nationwide class, it could expose the same rigid break-and-leave system to liability across every US fulfillment center, not just the four plaintiffs' facilities.