Uber, EEOC Reach $4.4 Million Sexual Harassment Settlement (1)

Uber Technologies Inc. agreed to pay $4.4 million after an EEOC investigation into alleged sexual harassment and retaliation at the ride-share company, the agency announced Dec. 18.

The nationwide settlement follows an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation in which the agency said it found reasonable cause that Uber allowed a culture of sexual harassment and retaliation to persist. The settlement will compensate any female employee who the EEOC determines experienced harassment or was retaliated against after Jan. 1, 2014 to Jun 30, 2019.

Uber came under widespread scrutiny in 2017, sparked by a former female engineer who wrote a public ...