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Amazon Makes It Harder for Disabled Employees to Work from Home

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283 points belter | 5 comments | 13 Nov 24 21:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.7s | source
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from-nibly ◴[13 Nov 24 23:33 UTC] No.42131416[source]▶
Guys, calm down. It's a layoff. They are just lying about it because they want to spin it in the quarterly earnings report. Executives at Amazon aren't incorrectly drawing conclusions, and they aren't dumb as rocks

They're LYING.

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1. janalsncm ◴[14 Nov 24 00:54 UTC] No.42131973[source]▶
Laying off disabled people seems pretty illegal. I don’t know.
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2. whaaaaat ◴[14 Nov 24 02:58 UTC] No.42132695[source]▶
Amazon is not known for obeying labor laws with any sort of regularity.
3. pxc ◴[14 Nov 24 03:35 UTC] No.42132912[source]▶
Workplace discrimination against disabled people is as at least as commonplace as it is illegal. The question is more how easy it would be to make the case against this kind of thing, rather than whether such a maneuver would be illegal in principle or in spirit.
4. rishav_sharan ◴[14 Nov 24 03:49 UTC] No.42132998[source]▶
Laying off people via wfh, irrespective of their disability seems to be pretty much in the vogue right now
5. from-nibly ◴[14 Nov 24 17:15 UTC] No.42138447[source]▶
Hence the lying