Gayatri Srinivas and Amy Cisneroz filed a proposed class-action complaint in federal court in Seattle on April 8, alleging Amazon underpaid female employees by classifying their roles as lower-paying “non-tech” jobs even when they performed the same work as higher-paid male colleagues with identical job titles. Cisneroz, a former principal product manager in Amazon's fashion division, says she was explicitly told her lower pay was due to a non-tech classification, and that she took over a male colleague's projects while on leave without any change to her own classification or compensation. The complaint closely mirrors a 2023 class-action filed by three women on Amazon's Worldwide Communications team that survived a dismissal attempt in 2024 and is still ongoing.
Former Amazon employees filed a class-action lawsuit alleging the company systematically underpaid women by misclassifying their jobs
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