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#Amazon fired single mom for bringing son to office, lawsuit claims

#Amazon fired single mom for bringing son to office, lawsuit claims

July 4, 2020 | 5:50pm

Amazon didn’t smile when a single mom — and Army Reservist — took her 7-year-old son to the office, a lawsuit claims.

Caonaissa Won, 33, is suing the online behemoth for axing her after she simply took the boy along to drop off paperwork, including his school schedule, that the human resources department had requested.

Won’s lawsuit, filed June 24 in Brooklyn Federal Court, alleges Amazon discriminated against her because she is both a caretaker and serves in the military. Amazon declined to comment on the litigation.

The firing took place in September — within an hour of the mom and son showing up to deliver the documents.

Won and her son went through building security without a problem and waited online at HR before a worker told her the boy couldn’t be there, court papers say.

The pair immediately went outside, but Won claims she couldn’t leave without dropping off the documents, which included a copy of her son’s school schedule. The lawsuit doesn’t specify the Amazon location.

After 40 minutes, an HR rep came outside and quizzed Won about bringing her son into the building. Then the rep left and returned with another employee — and Won was fired on the spot, court papers say.

Won, just back from military leave, had been fighting for a schedule change so she could drop off and pick up her son from school; Amazon, though, had repeatedly denied her request, even when she offered to make up the lost time, she said in the lawsuit, which seeks unspecified damages.

Amazon came under fire in April for not protecting workers in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic.

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