Amazon ordered to reinstate employee fired over safety protest

By Christopher Hutton

Published April 19, 2022 3:53pm ET

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Amazon ordered to reinstate employee fired over safety protest — An Amazon Prime truck passes by the sign outisde an Amazon fulfillment center, Thursday, March 19, 2020, in Staten Island, New York. The company's plans to add fulfillment and distribution center positions to keep up with increased demand during the coronavirus outbreak. | (Kathy Willens/AP)

A judge ordered Amazon to reinstate an employee after determining he was unlawfully fired for protesting the safety conditions inside the Big Tech company’s Staten Island warehouse early in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Amazon “engaged in an unfair labor practice” and must offer reinstatement to Gerald Bryson, pay him two years of earnings, and remove any reference to his firing from its files, according to Administrative Law Judge Benjamin Green’s Monday ruling.

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