'Multiple issues' | HR 'IGNORED' by Amazon CEO in discrimination firing scandal

HR 'IGNORED' by Amazon CEO in discrimination firing scandal

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy allegedly ignored HR recommendations to fire a top executive accused of discriminatory behaviour, according to reports.

As reported by Protocol and, later, The Verge, a Black female AWS (Amazon Web Services) employee told HR in 2019 that a member of the executive leadership, Joshua Burgin, had made what she believed were discriminatory comments to her.

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