Amazon has a well-documented track record of delaying and denying all sorts of disability accommodations—including lighter duty for pregnant warehouse workers—which squares with its notoriously high turnover business model (
roughly 150 percent per year). Between 2011 and 2019, at least seven pregnancy discrimination lawsuits were filed against Amazon. Workers alleged that the company failed to accommodate requests such as more frequent bathroom breaks and fewer continuous hours standing and then fired them. In 2019, Amazon warehouse workers in Phoenix wrote a letter to Jeff Bezos that said that pregnant workers
had received final warnings from Amazon for "time off task." Last year, Motherboard reported that
Amazon failed to quickly accommodate four pregnant workers at a warehouse in Oklahoma City—forcing workers to risk miscarriage, homelessness, and eviction.