Nearly 200 Amazon workers called this pregnancy rights hotline in 2026. Now there’s a lawsuit

Amazon is once again under fire for its work policies, this time with a new class-action lawsuit filed against the retail giant on Tuesday that alleges the company has failed to make basic workplace accommodations for its pregnant employees. The lawsuit, filed in a Brooklyn federal court, alleges that the Seattle-based company has engaged in a systematic and company-wide failure to accommodate pregnant workers and deliberate policies of retaliation against those workers. The four named plaintiffs, all of whom were formerly employed at Amazon warehouses in New York, detail instances in which they claim they were denied work accommodations and subsequently disciplined or fired for terminated or retaliated against during their pregnancies. The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, which was signed into law by President Joe Biden in 2022 and went into effect in 2023, is key to this proposed nationwide class-action lawsuit. That legislation requires employers to provide “reasonable accommodations” for qualified employees affected by pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions. The new lawsuit alleges that Amazon’s policies violated the law in two ways—by requiring a pregnant worker t…