Amazon Hiring Spree Bolsters Its Workplace Safety Team (1)

The world’s biggest retailer is boosting its cadre of in-house counsels and advisers with experience in workplace safety and labor and employment litigation, as the company continues to face litigation over alleged unsafe work conditions.

Tressi Cordaro, a Jackson Lewis principal and head of the firm’s Workplace Safety and Health Practice Group in Washington, D.C., is the latest to join Amazon.com’s team. Cordaro will join Amazon’s Worldwide Operations, Workplace Health and Safety, on June 29 as the director of compliance, an Amazon representative confirmed to Bloomberg Law.

Cordaro’s move to Amazon is just the latest in a spree of executive ...