In Former Engineer's Harassment Suit, Uber's Decision to Scrap Arbitration Gets Its First Test
The lawsuit comes just a week after the company announced that it would forgo arbitration and nondisclosure agreements in harassment cases.
May 21, 2018 at 06:19 PM
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In the first test of Uber's newly announced policy to let sexual harassment and assault cases play out in public, a former Latina engineer sued the company claiming she faced discrimination based on her gender, ethnicity and disability.
Lawyers at Outten & Golden on Monday filed suit in San Francisco Superior Court on behalf of former Uber software engineer Ingrid Avendaño, who worked for the company from February 2014 to June 2017.
“Over her entire tenure at Uber, Avendaño saw and experienced a male-dominated work culture, permeated with degrading, marginalizing, discriminatory, and sexually harassing conduct towards women,” wrote Outten & Golden's Jennifer Schwartz and Menaka Fernando in Monday's 33-page complaint.
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