Uber fired more than 20 employees after 215 claims of sexual harassment.
Uber has fired more than 20 employees as part of its internal probe into sexual harrasment at the company, according a Bloomberg report citing an anonymous source on Tuesday.
The company announced the news internally to its 12,000 employees on Tuesday, the latest development in a series of scandals and controversies that have rocked the world's most valuable private tech company.
The investigation by outside law firm Perkins Coie looked into 215 claims of sexual harassment, taking no action in 100 instances, Bloomberg said. There are still cases under investigation as well.
The Perkins Coie investigation is apparently separate from a probe being conducted for Uber by Eric Holder, the former US Attorney General. Holder has given his recommendations to Uber's board, though it's not yet clear what his findings or recommendations are.
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick launched an internal investigation in February after a former employee, Susan Fowler, said in a personal blog post that she was sexually harassed and experienced gender bias during her time at the company. The company has been interviewing its employees internally, as well as having Perkins Coie and Holder investigate the company's workplace.
Tuesday's news of the terminations comes after
In late May, Uber's HR chief in an interview had said that sexual harassment wasn't a problem for the company.
“(Fowler’s) blog shocked me,” Liane Hornsey, Uber's HR head told USA Today. “But, what did surprise me, was when I did the listening sessions, this didn’t come up as an issue. It wasn’t one of our big themes. Other things came up that are in that area, that our values are masculine and a little aggressive, but the harassment issue, I just didn’t find that at all.”
Uber was not immediately available for comment.
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