Ex-employee claims Uber's HR ignored sexual harassment claims

Uber have made recent headlines for a variety of reasons, including misleading potential candidates over earning potential and gig-economy employment practises, as well as links to Trump.

Now the app-based taxi and delivery firm are in hot water again, after an ex-employee posted a blog about the unpunished sexual harassment she experienced at the firm – Marketwatch reports.

Susan Fowler, formerly employed as a Site Reliability Engineer at the firm, claimed her male supervisor made sexual advances towards her, on an in-office chat service, on her first day.

The engineer writes that she reported the supervisor to HR but was told, because he was a high performer with no previous complaints against him, he would not be punished.