People working in Amazon warehouses are four times as likely to suffer musculoskeletal injuries as their industry peers, according to state regulators (Getty Images)

Amazon warehouse employee fired while recovering from surgery to fix hernias he got on job, lawsuit says

An Amazon warehouse employee who needed surgery to repair two work-related hernias was fired for “non-attendance” while he recuperated at home from the operation, according to a federal civil rights lawsuit obtained by The Independent. Although Las Vegas resident Lashone Brown had been granted official medical leave, his complaint says Amazon’s automated attendance system misclassified…

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<span>The Amazon headquarters in Seattle, Washington. Amazon’s laid off 16,000 workers in January in a move its vice-president linked to AI.</span><span>Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images</span>

US companies accused of ‘AI washing’ in citing artificial intelligence for job losses

The Amazon headquarters in Seattle, Washington. Amazon’s laid off 16,000 workers in January in a move its vice-president linked to AI.Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images · Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images Over the last year, US corporate leaders have often explained layoffs by saying the positions were no longer needed because artificial intelligence had made their companies more efficient,…

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