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Amazon reinstated mandatory binding arbitration and eliminated workers' right to join class-action lawsuits. The move bars employees from suing the company collectively.
Amazon reinstated mandatory binding arbitration for all workers and eliminated their right to join class-action lawsuits. This means any employee dispute with Amazon now goes to private arbitration instead of court, and workers can't band together to sue collectively. The arbitration process is private, secret, and harder for workers to win.
Class-action lawsuits are a worker's main tool for challenging company-wide problems—wage theft, discrimination, safety violations that affect many people. By forcing individual arbitration instead, Amazon shields itself from the collective power of its workforce. Arbitration also means fewer public records of what workers experienced, making it harder to spot patterns of abuse. This is a significant power shift in Amazon's favor.
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