Worker rights | Staff automatically fired without human involvement

Amazon’s lack of investment in the HR process and mistreatment of employees is again being scrutinised.

A new report – which The Verge cited as a letter by an Amazon Attorney as part of a case with the National Labour Relations Board - confirmed that the firm intends to utilise automated systems to fire employees – without the involvement of humans in the process.

Business Insider Australia reports that Amazon’s demanding workplace culture has long been a point of concern due to a perceived lack of employee welfare, with reports of suicidal employees, regular ambulance visits due to exhaustion and unsustainable working conditions being released almost daily.

Now, Business Insider Australia has confirmed that over 300 workers were fired in a single Baltimore facility in the period of August 2017 to September 2018.