The fired employee noted that female co-workers asked for his help with “sex-based discrimination and harassment they were suffering at the hands of a male supervisor,” the employee said in his complaint filed in September to the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing. That complaint recently became public following a public records request.
The employee said he brought the complaints to the HR’s attention a number of times, but that they failed to investigate. He was told instead that “‘We get a lot of phone calls from employees that we don’t always act on.’”
A short time after approaching HR, the employee said he was “subjected to a retaliatory investigation” and then fired March last year, according to the complaint. Uber fell into trouble earlier this year after a former employee wrote in a public blog how on her first official day at the firm in November 2015, her manager propositioned her for sex, as reported by PHRM.