Amazon Must Face Murderer’s Lawsuit on Behalf of Unhired Ex-Cons
- N.Y. man denied grocery delivery job after 25 years in prison
- Company says he lied about criminal history on application
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Amazon.com Inc. was unable to escape a lawsuit filed by a convicted murderer who claims the company’s refusal to hire him as a delivery driver was discrimination.
Henry Franklin applied in 2019 for a job delivering groceries to customers of Whole Foods, an Amazon unit. He’d been paroled a year earlier from a New York prison where he served almost 25 years for second-degree murder, according to court records.