Article 65DT1 Jeff Bezos sued by former housekeeper alleging racial discrimination

Jeff Bezos sued by former housekeeper alleging racial discrimination

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Rupert Neate Wealth correspondent
from Technology | The Guardian on (#65DT1)

Mercedes Wedaa claims she was forced to regularly climb out of a laundry room window to go to the toilet

Jeff Bezos is being sued by a former housekeeper who claims she was subjected to racial discrimination and forced to regularly climb out of a laundry room window to go to the toilet as she wasn't allowed to enter the Amazon billionaire's house except on cleaning assignment".

Mercedes Wedaa, who worked cleaning Bezos's Seattle mansion for three years, claimed in a lawsuit filed in Seattle state court that she and other hispanic cleaning staff were treated differently to white staff.

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