BiasMedium
Amazon Flex Drivers Allegedly Fired via Automated Employee Evaluations
- Occurred
- Sep 25, 2015
- Published
- Jun 28, 2021
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Amazon Flex's contract delivery drivers were dismissed using a minimally human-interfered automated employee performance evaluation based on indicators impacted by out-of-driver's-control factors and without having a chance to defend against or appeal the decision.
Developers
- Amazon
Deployers
- Amazon Flex
Harmed parties
- Amazon Flex employees
- Amazon Flex drivers
Classification
Category confidence: 85%
Severity confidence: 80%
Rationale: Automated firing system causing unfair outcomes without human review or appeal process.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8