A Delaware court has thrown out all five claims brought by a former Amazon warehouse worker.
The worker joined an Amazon fulfillment center in August 2021 as a fulfillment associate, earning $16.55 per hour. Her offer letter was blunt: the job was at-will, and Amazon “may terminate our relationship at any time for any reason, with or without cause.”
She was, by most accounts, a solid performer. Her work earned her a step up to a process guide role, assisting a more senior process assistant. When that process assistant stepped down around March 2022, a supervisor directed the worker to take on additional duties from the vacated role - but without the higher pay rate that came with it.
She kept asking when the position would be posted so she could formally apply. She was told to keep watching. She even trained other candidates for the role. Amazon never posted it.
Then things started to unravel.
In November 2022, the worker reported that a co-worker had verbally threatened her after she corrected his use of a pallet jack. She flagged it to her supervisor immediately, who directed her to HR. Amazon placed her on paid leave for eight days while it investigated.
When she came back, she parked in the Employee of the Month spot - the closest to the building - out of fear of running into the co-worker. She was not Employee of the Month. That earned her a disciplinary warning and 30 days of probation.
She believed the discipline was payback for pressing HR about the threat. She...
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