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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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I don't think they are talking about paying Uber drivers - from the summary: > information related to hiring practices, pay disparity and other matters as they relate to gender, Sounds like Uber employees, not drivers.
Makes sense, since the EEOC only deals with complaints and issues between employers and employees, not contractors. If contractors allege discriminatory selection or payment based on gender, and none of the companies/individuals are involved in federal contracts, then regulation and enforcement falls on individual state bodies.
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.
Translation: average pay and hiring for women must the same or greater than men no matter what for equality. Otoh If men's pay and hiring is less, that's okay because reasons.
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.
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.
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.
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
What he's obviously talking about are the half-truths and general dishonesty in the gender pay parity/disparity debate.
If you're not familiar with it or need a refresher, the typical "women only earn x cents on a man's dollar" figures don't control for things like hours worked (as per contract and overtime), years of experience education, if they're working full or part time, specialization, night shift and work during other irregular hours, vacation time, or willingness and ability to bargain for salary. When you start factoring in for those things the myth of the gender pay gap doesn't just die a death by a thousand cuts, it gets properly stabbed by many of the factors that I mentioned (just factoring in for part time work alone get us from 77 to 83 cents-on-the-dollar) and I wasn't even close to thorough in listing factors that cause a skew in improperly done analysis'.
Because of how badly inaccurate these comparisons tend to get, a parity or close-to-parity situation is actually a case of higher pay for the same work when examined with actual rigor.
"Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it."
you're just yet another in a long parade of people who..... will jump through the most incredible mental gymnastics to justify your "viewpoint".
Look in the mirror sometime.
Ahh the old "You have to allow our racist hate group, but you are not allowed to have your own racist hate group" card.