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Uber also said it will no longer require mandatory arbitration
for claims of sexual harassment or assault by its riders,
drivers or employees.
"We commit to publishing a safety transparency report that will
include data on sexual assaults and other incidents that occur
on the Uber platform," Uber wrote on its blog.
According to some media reports, Uber was accused of trying to
force women who say they were sexually assaulted by drivers to
resolve their claims behind closed doors rather than in the
courts, a move that critics say silences victims and shields the
company from public scrutiny.
Court records in a California class-action lawsuit revealed that
the ride-sharing firm has argued that female passengers who
speak up about being raped in an Uber must individually settle
their cases through arbitration, a private process that often
results in confidentiality agreements, The Guardian reported.
Uber is currently facing a class action lawsuit in the United
States for poor driver vetting that has led to a series of
sexual harassment incidents, including rape.
After several high-profile scandals, Chief Executive Officer
Dara Khosrowshahi, who took the top job in August last year, has
been unveiling several safety measures to restore Uber's brand
and image.
(Reporting by Arjun Panchadar in Bengaluru; Editing by Bernard
Orr)
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