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Uber Facing Allegations of Sexual Harassment from Former Engineer

HeadlineFeb 21, 2017

Uber has hired former Attorney General Eric Holder as the company faces allegations of sexual harassment from a former engineer. In a public blog post titled “Reflecting on One Very, Very Strange Year at Uber,” engineer Susan Fowler Rigetti wrote about how she was propositioned for sex by a male colleague on her very first day working with a new team at Uber. She says her report of this incident, and multiple others, were ignored by Uber’s human resources department.

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