Jeff Bezos was sued by a former housekeeper of his. Mercedes Wedaa, who for three years worked as a maid at the Amazon founder’s Seattle mansion, says she was subjected to racial profiling to the point where she was regularly forced out of a laundry room window to go to the bathroom because she didn’t have permission. at home.
She said in a Seattle state court case that both she and other Hispanic cleaners were treated differently from white employees, working shifts of up to 14 hours a day, with no breaks and no place to eat.
According to Bezos’ attorney Harry Korrell, Wedaa’s claims are unfounded. Bezos, contrary to what one might imagine, is not directly of Hispanic origin, but his surname derives from his mother’s second husband, Miguel “Mike” Bezos, Cuban, married when niccolo Jeff was four years old.
Source: IL Tempo
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