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The
settlement, disclosed in a filing in the U.S. District Court for
the Northern District of California, says Uber also agreed to
reforms to its system for compensation, reviews and promotions.
According to the filing, the settlement compensates for
financial and emotional harm to about 285 women and 135 men of
color.
The settlement arises out of two actions filed in October, one
in the San Francisco Superior Court and another in the
California district court.
On Oct. 24, Roxana del Toro Lopez and Ana Medina, who described
themselves as Latina software engineers, filed an action in the
Superior Court, followed by another three days later in the
district court alleging classwide gender and race
discrimination.
The lawsuit said Uber's employee ranking system was "not based
on valid and reliable performance measures" and favored men and
white or Asian employees. As a result they lost out on earnings,
promotions and benefits, they added.
The lawsuit followed a widely read blog post in February 2017
from another female engineer that described Uber's work
environment as one that tolerated and fostered sexual
harassment.
The settlement includes regular reporting of demographic data to
Uber's workforce and to the court, as well as developing a
validated promotion assessment process.
(Reporting by Manas Mishra and Rama Venkat Raman in Bengaluru;
Editing by Sunil Nair)
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