American international transportation company

ETHICS AND
GOVERNANCE

Introductio
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UBER Technologies Inc. is an American international
transportation company. It has been a leading
transportation company across the globe but in
recent years company faced a lot of issues, law
suits and protests. There were many unethical
steps taken by UBER due to which their was
huge loss in the business.

Relevant Facts
▹ A former employee of UBER named
as Susan Fowler wrote about sexual
harassment and negligence by the
departments on Twitter.
▹ Women employees were getting less
salary as compared to male
employees.
▹ The male employees were talking
nonsense about women character
like, one of the male employee said
that a woman got the job in UBER
due to his physical relation with a
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▹ Furthermore, there was an incident
where a male software engineer said
that UBER recruit women who can
sleep their way to the top. Therefore,
Ms. Avendano complained about this
but the HR department ignored this.
▹ Also, male employees misbehave with
women employees, comment on their
physical appearance but no action was
taken by UBER.
▹ Moreover, there were no rewards or
promotion schemes for women
employees.