Summary: Details Of Uber Harassment Settlement Released

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Uber Harassment Settlement: Summary & Reflection
In “Details Of Uber Harassment Settlement Released,” Kennedy reports most recent developments of a class-action lawsuit against Uber, a ride-hailing company, on a range of discrimination and harassment charges by a group of former and present employees. The lawsuit, settled for $10 million at an average of $34,000 for 56 people and $11,000 for another 483 people of varying claims about discrimination and harassment reflects a broader workplace culture, argues Kennedy, which has shown increasing patterns of discrimination based on race and gender. Notably, Uber has a gender-bias problem, so chronic in Silicon Valley industry. The degree to which Uber’s culture is at stake against a background of discrimination and sexual harassment is ideally highlighted by Kennedy who reports on an incident by Susan Fowler, a former Uber engineer, who published a blog post about d...