"The Guardian" declare : Uber hires Eric Holder to investigate sexual harassment allegations

Uber has hired the former US attorney general Eric Holder to investigate allegations of sexual harassment after an engineer went public with claims that she repeatedly faced sexism and discrimination at the ride-sharing company. This is not the first time a tech corporation has hired Holder in the wake of a discrimination scandal. The company subsequently implemented new staff and rules aimed at preventing discrimination, though some critics said the reforms were inadequate. Kalanick's email only provided gender data, saying the 15% figure for women "has not changed substantively in the last year". I know the company is hurting," Kalanick said in his email.


as informed in When she reported the incident to human resources, Rigetti wrote, she was told it was the manager's first offense and she was advised to transfer teams. Travis Kalanick, Founder and CEO of Uber, said the company would launch an investigation into allegations of sexual harassment by a former female employee. Susan Fowler Rigetti wrote that during her year working as an engineer at Uber she and other female staffers reported multiple instances of sexual harassment and discrimination to the company's human resources department. Rigetti wrote that soon after starting at the company she received messages from a manager stating he was in an "open relationship" and that he made advances toward her. We all gave up on Uber HR and our managers after that," wrote Rigetti, who now works for online payment firm Stripe, according to her LinkedIn profile.


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Uber hires former Attorney General Eric Holder to probe sexual harassment claims

Uber said on Monday that it is tapping former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to help conduct an investigation into sexual harassment claims made by a former employee. Kalanick also posted his reactions to Twitter on Sunday, embedding a link to Fowler's blog post. Kalanick on Sunday called the descriptions in Fowler's post "abhorrent," saying that the actions described have no place at Uber. "I have just read Susan Fowler's blog," he said in the Sunday statement. Uber CEO Travis Kalanick announced the move in a letter sent around to company employees which was seen by ABC News.




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