Amazon Workers Facing Firing Can Appeal to a Jury of Their Co-Workers
This is such a poor implementation of what has proven to be a very robust mechanism.<p>Since the employee is being fired (deprived of something), they are &quot;the accused&quot; and &quot;the burden of proof lies with the accuser&quot;. All the charges that are presented must be presented in such a way as to be challenged. Allowing the manager the last word -- and not allowing the employee to even be aware of what was said -- indicates that accusations are being made without being challenged.<p>The selection of jurors -- three non-managers or one manager -- seems strange in part because it recognizes a hierarchy of people and in part because it involves such a small number of people. The validity of a jury hinges in part on a certain notion of the equality of people -- we don&#x27;t have juries of 12 ordinary people or 2 senators in the United States because we don&#x27;t expect that senators are &quot;more just&quot; than ordinary people. It&#x27;s hard to see why expecting managers to be &quot;more just&quot; is any more reasonable.