Amazon Flex Drivers Say Shift-Signup App Cheats Them on Pay

A group of Amazon.com Inc. workers who use their own vehicles to deliver packages sued the online retail giant in California federal court, claiming they’ve been misclassified as independent contractors and denied wages and reimbursements.

The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, challenges how the company treats couriers in its Amazon Flex program, which pays workers to make deliveries using their own vehicles.

Elson Marcelo and 15 other current and former couriers say the company improperly passes its delivery costs onto them by forcing them to compete for shifts and failing to ...