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Uber Faces Federal Investigation Over Alleged Gender Discrimination (bbc.com)
According to The Wall Street Journal, Uber is being investigated by U.S. authorities over a complaint about gender discrimination (Warning: source may be paywalled; alternative source). The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is leading the investigation, which began last August but hasn't been previously reported. From the report: EEOC investigators have been interviewing former and current Uber employees as well as seeking documents from Uber officials, these people said. The investigators have been seeking information related to hiring practices, pay disparity and other matters as they relate to gender, one person said. Uber, which hopes to debut on the public markets sometime in the second half of next year, is already is facing at least five other federal investigations by multiple agencies into its pricing practices, accusations of bribery by Uber executives abroad, and its use of software designed to evade local officials tracking its operations, among other matters.
The EEOC, tasked with enforcing federal laws against discrimination, generally responds to confidential complaints filed by workers against employers, and can file suit or seek private arbitration. Of roughly 90,000 complaints filed annually, a fraction result in a settlement or EEOC-led lawsuit. It is unclear whether the EEOC intends to take any action against Uber, which would be one of the agency's most prominent recent cases.
The EEOC, tasked with enforcing federal laws against discrimination, generally responds to confidential complaints filed by workers against employers, and can file suit or seek private arbitration. Of roughly 90,000 complaints filed annually, a fraction result in a settlement or EEOC-led lawsuit. It is unclear whether the EEOC intends to take any action against Uber, which would be one of the agency's most prominent recent cases.
I guess the details of the gig economy are of interest to /.ers, including corporate regulatory enforcement!
That is all.
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The fare is determined by an algorithm and is gender-blind. http://freakonomics.com/podcas...
What gender discrimination? Uber hired a transgender.
Sure, the transgender killed someone. And it no longer works for Uber. But that's not Uber's fault.
Is anyone else starting to long for open legal discrimination. I am. This is all bullshit money for lawyers and left wing nut jobs.. employers hire who does the job best for the least money... period. If they hire too few women or races of humans theres generally a practical reason for it.. especially today..
That doesn't go balls to the wall with social justice and environmental initiatives and PR. Maybe they can start up a girls only coding scholarship or hire more transgenders and loudly publicize it. That way they don't stick out as much as an inviting target or black sheep among all the other super leftwing sv corporations.
It's well known that EEOC violations are a mafia-style political shakedown. On the other hand, Uber is a truly vile company which deserves to go out of business and have their management jailed.
Flip a coin, I guess.
They actually got blackmailed by black lives matter (no pun intended) and had to donate a bunch of money to a restore an old Sears building in Sacramento, where one of the floors is a tribute to the black Panthers.
I filed an EEOC complaint against Uber for retaliation. It's funny they hired a chick who trafficked drugs from Canada but can't seem to keep employees who pass FBI background checks
Granted I didn't work directly for Uber but I got let go whilst a female co-worker who I had reported because she just got out of prison in Canada for a year for drug trafficking got to keep her job. I guess I should let the feds know. Too bad normal background checks don't cover international crimes.
Google fed back this response:
"San Francisco, California, United States
Uber/Headquarters"
Based on that piece of information, my confidence in the article is already dropped 75%. The definition of gender discrimination in San Francisco is extremely broad. Who knows what they did, if *anything*.
Endless social justice / politics comes out of that place, it's truly agonising.
I'd be shocked if a company that's basic premise is operating an unlawful taxi company does unlawful things.
I don't know about their hiring practices, but I wouldn't apply for a job at Uber without expecting that they'll probably not be following regulations. That's kinda their thing, not following regulations. They think the rules don't apply to them - that's what defines Uber as a company.
It's horrible that they're picking winners and losers
Has Uber ever done anything it was morally, ethically, or legally supposed to do?
At the rate they are burning through cash, credibility, and public goodwill, next years plan for an IPO seems likely to be another epic fail for Uber. They have went morphed from tech darlings into the poster child for greed, incompetence, corporate cultural failure, and technology overreach.
The article is a corporate media hit piece against Uber.
Note the complete absence of creimertards, "APK", and the faggot/INCEL/pedophile/traitor/Nazi trolls scumming up the discussion.
Coincidence?
Or is it because all those trolls are operated by propaganda organs reporting to the same financial interests that control the corporate media?
That doesn't go balls to the wall with social justice
They go balls to the wall with breaking every law they can find and some they can't.
What is amazing is that when we get an "uber breaks another law" story, there's a small number of cpaitalistas who defend uber on the grounds that anything done for money is legit and otheweise a general feeling of "yeah well it's Uber what do you expect".
Unless, it appears it's anything gender related, in which case people seem to fall over themselves to defend them. I tink there's a big case of double standards.
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This was the official reply:
We, the 'we are not a taxi company"-Taxi company, do not do that. We just make a difference because of age, gender, skin color, age and religion. We do not even use the 'd'-word around here. That is how much we do not do it. We use a Dutch wordt for our human-segragation-policy.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
ntr
Ahh the old "You have to allow our racist hate group, but you are not allowed to have your own racist hate group" card.
Based on reports of recent female resignations, yes, Uber is guilty of gender discrimination -- they hired unqualified females due to political pressure.
What is amazing is that when we get an "uber breaks another law" story, there's a small number of cpaitalistas who defend uber on the grounds that anything done for money is legit and otheweise a general feeling of "yeah well it's Uber what do you expect".
Unless, it appears it's anything gender related, in which case people seem to fall over themselves to defend them. I tink there's a big case of double standards.
You think wrong, as the two groups are not the same people.
Painting large diverse groups of people with a broad brush is something a Trumpanze (is that what you call them?) would do, btw.
Angry Vaginas, just accept it, you are all lazy cunts compared to the drive of a red blooded male.
Please, do stay in the kitchen and keep whining, you lazy cunts. Make lots of excuses stating why you are a lazy cunt while you are at it. File lawsuits even.