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Sadly, zero repercussions. Who will sue them? Individuals cannot, the process of law is long and requires substantial money. Government is difficult enough to g
by adamredwoods 2y ago
Sadly, zero repercussions. Who will sue them? Individuals cannot, the process of law is long and requires substantial money. Government is difficult enough to get involved, and will soon lack resources to intervene or impose fines.
- perihelions 2y agoI'm not sure if that's the right take: the Americans with Disabilities Act is maybe the most plaintiff-friendly tort law in the US. There's whole law firms specializing in finding viable plaintiffs to take on contingency (i.e at no cost).
- some_furry 2y agoThat might matter if it weren't for forced arbitration clauses.
- lthornberry 2y agoThere are tort firms doing that in every area of tort law. ADA cases are not easy wins and don’t often produce significant awards.
- no_wizard 2y agoAmazon is big enough that they might even be able to get a class action lawsuit going, to be honest. If enough people started coming forward about disability discrimination.
- harimau777 2y agoIt seems to me that the payout for the employee would need to be enough that they never have to work again because of the risk that they won't be able to find a new jobs after having a lawsuit on their record.
- lepus 2y agoWhich record that most employers would check includes lawsuits against former employers?
- whaaaaat 2y agoThe New York Times. Washington Post. Seattle Times. If you take Amazon to court and win a labor lawsuit, your name will be ALL over the papers.
- lepus 2y agoEmployees have and will continue to take Amazon to court over issues like this and go completely under the radar. The case would also highly likely be settled out of court to avoid this exact issue because they don't want it in the papers either. For an individual doing a (for Amazon) low stakes lawsuit you're highly sensationalizing the situation.
- Vosporos 2y agoThat's why we've got trade unions, if only software engineers stopped believing they were above employer abuse.
- dccoolgai 2y agoIt would be an interesting idea if employees at tech companies organized unions _for each other_. Like the guys at Apple ran the union for Microsoft and negotiated for them and visa versa.