Uber fires over 20 employees amid complaints of sexual harassment and bullying

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Uber has fired more than 20 employees after a law firm investigated complaints of sexual harassment&comma; bullying&comma; discrimination and other violations of company policies&period; The recent firings included both managers and lower-level workers&comma; some of whom retaliated against employees after they complained about bad conduct at the ride-hailing firm&comma; said Bobbie Wilson&comma; a Perkins Coie partner involved in the investigation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Uber Technologies Inc retained the firm after former engineer Susan Fowler posted a blog in February about sex harassment at the company&period; Ms Fowler wrote that on her first day at work her boss propositioned her in a series of messages&period; The Perkins Coie probe is separate from one being done by former Attorney General Eric Holder&period; He is likely to make broader recommendations on how to change Uber&&num;8217&semi;s culture when his report is released publicly next week&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Separately&comma; Uber announced on Tuesday that it has hired Apple marketing executive Bozoma Saint John&comma; who will be Uber&&num;8217&semi;s chief brand officer&period; She ran global consumer marketing of Apple Music and iTunes&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Her task at Uber will be to improve its brand image so people like it as well as they like the company&&num;8217&semi;s ride services&comma; an Uber spokeswoman said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>After Ms Fowler&&num;8217&semi;s blog posting&comma; Uber set up a 24-hour hotline to take complaints from employees&comma; and hired Perkins Coie to investigate them&period; The firm checked into 215 complaints&comma; and 57 remain under investigation&period; The hotline will remain in operation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The probe into Ms Fowler&&num;8217&semi;s complaints is still under way&comma; and Ms Wilson would not say if any of those fired&comma; or 31 other employees placed in counselling&comma; were involved in that&period; Ms Wilson said Uber gave her law firm &&num;8220&semi;unfettered access&&num;8221&semi; to people and documents that were needed for the Fowler investigation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Uber is the number one ride-hailing company in the US and is valued at nearly US&dollar;70bn&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed5e39887d4">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; false &equals;&equals;&equals; &lpar; window&period;isWatlV1 &quest;&quest; false &rpar; &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&sol;&sol; Use Aditude scripts&period;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings &equals; window&period;tudeMappings &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings&period;push&lpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;divId&colon; 'atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed5e39887d4'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;format&colon; 'belowpost'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; document&period;readyState &equals;&equals;&equals; 'loading' &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;document&period;addEventListener&lpar; 'DOMContentLoaded'&comma; window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; else &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback&lpar;&rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;script>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>


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