Three Amazon.com (AMZN) employees claim the company opened HR investigations after they testified in support of a Seattle moratorium on new data center construction, Bloomberg reported Thursday.
The workers, members of Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, were separately summoned into HR meetings the week after their public testimony, with at least one told the investigation could lead to discipline or termination, according to a letter their lawyers sent to the Seattle Office for Civil Rights requesting an investigation, the report said.
Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment from.
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