October 22, 2025
New Jersey’s attorney general slapped Amazon with a suit Wednesday claiming the online retail giant makes it nearly impossible for pregnant or disabled employees to get workplace accommodations, putting workers on unpaid leave if they seek adjustments such as lifting limits or extra breaks.
The state’s complaint alleged that Amazon.com Services LLC has systemically failed to provide accommodations to pregnant workers and those with disabilities across dozens of package-sorting warehouses it operates in the state in violation of the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination and the state’s Pregnant Workers Fairness Act.
“The largest company in the world, a company that can deliver anything to your door in hours, is doing everything it can to avoid providing basic protections to the people who make those packages get to you on time,” New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin said in a Wednesday news conference announcing the suit.
The suit claimed that Amazon, which is New Jersey’s largest private employer, implements “arduous and ineffective” accommodation policies and procedures that are designed to prevent workers from securing work adjustments. When workers filed accommodation requests — seeking more bathroom breaks, lifting restrictions or other adjustments — the state said Amazon would often automatically place the employee on unpaid leave while their request was pending, a practice prohibited by the NJLAD.
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The state is represented by Christina Brandt-Young, Farng-Yi Foo and Maryanne Abdelmesih of the New Jersey attorney general’s office and Christina D. Saler, Diane Kee, Emmy L. Levens, Harini Srinivasan and Phoebe Wolfe of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC.
Read NJ Accuses Amazon of Pregnancy, Disability Discrimination.