A senior manager at Amazon has filed a lawsuit in D.C. district court against Amazon, alleging race and gender discrimination against her and sexual harassment and assault by a former Amazon executive.
Charlotte Newman is a Black senior manager at Amazon who has been with the company since January 2017. She previously worked as a top advisor to Sen. Cory Booker and multiple members of the House of Representatives.
“They have made ‘customer obsession’ their top leadership principle,” the preliminary statement of the lawsuit reads. “Driven by profits and greed, Amazon and Mr. Bezos are not, however, ’employee-obsessed’ in the same way. Their practices when it comes to hiring and promoting Black people and other underrepresented minorities to high-level positions (and paying them commensurately) perpetuate decades-old patterns of discrimination.”
According to the lawsuit, Amazon hired Newman at a Level 6 position, Public Policy Manager, despite the fact that she had applied and was qualified for a Level 7 position, Senior Manager. Newman was assigned the work of a Senior Manager-level employee while being paid for a lower position.
The lawsuit says Newman reported her concerns about the impact of her race and gender on her employment to Amazon multiple times, including filing a written complaint about sexual assault and harassment committed against her by a senior male employee and filing an administrative complaint with the Washington, D.C. Office of Human Rights.
“According to the lawsuit, Amazon hired Newman at a Level 6 position, Public Policy Manager, despite the fact that she had applied and was qualified for a Level 7 position, Senior Manager. Newman was assigned (shouldn’t this say ACCEPTED?)the work of a Senior Manager-level employee while being paid for a lower position.”
It would seem to me that the hiring official did not consider you qualified for a Senior Manager position or they would have offered you that position. Why did you accept the Lower Level position if you did not want it? My advice to you is to go back to the House of Representatives and demand they give you Pelosi’s job.
Bingo!
If she was over 35 and born in the USA she was qualified to be President, but as noted she accepted the job she was offered despite having once breathed the same rarified air as Spartacus!
She’s just trying to shake the money tree, and probably wasn’t cutting the mustard or she’d have moved up to Level 99 by now. I don’t like Amazon but they are due a smidge of sympathy for having to deal with this malcontent.
Hire by achievement potential for your company, not by
accommodating race whiners.
If the NBA were forced to pay and play 70% white
players to follow population numbers instead of
the under 10% that they do, things would be different.
Paid what your worth but of course loser like this feel entitled
Can her picture be published? If not, why not?
Actually, if you consider the current Federal funding for unemployment, this person could simply want to be laid off no matter what the reason. Maybe she should have started coughing while still at work.