A pregnant Amazon employee asked for a chair to sit on—and wound up homeless
"You're just a number to them."
When Genesis found out she was pregnant, she asked her managers at Amazon for a chair to sit on and extra breaks. She wound up with cut hours and no paid maternity leave—and homeless. Now, she and other pregnant Amazon warehouse workers are speaking up. My latest:
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