Uber has been the focus of plenty of criticism lately. If you've somehow managed to avoid the urge to delete this app, here are some highlights: questionable ethics surrounding treatment and pay of drivers (or, you know, the possibility that it might replace them with self-driving cars eventually); accusations of trying to profit off an immigration ban protest; its controversial CEO, Travis Kalanick, who had ties to Donald Trump and was caught on video being a dick to one of his company's drivers. The ride-sharing company had yet another new scandal to deal with in December: A former engineer at the company made harassment allegations against it, which she made public in the form of a blog post. Now, Uber has said that it will be making the results of an investigation public, Motto reports.Those results are expected at the end of April 2017. "Whatever the investigation finds will be honoured by everyone at Uber," said Uber board member Arianna Huffington while on a call with reporters. Former US Attorney General Eric Holder is heading Uber's internal investigation into the matter.
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The former Uber employee who made the sexual harassment allegations on her personal website, Susan Fowler Rigetti, described multiple experiences at the San Francisco-based tech company. "It was clear that he was trying to get me to have sex with him, and it was so clearly out of line that I immediately took screenshots of these chat messages and reported him to HR," Fowler Rigetti wrote. "I was told by both HR and upper management that even though this was clearly sexual harassment and he was propositioning me, it was this man's first offense, and that they wouldn't feel comfortable giving him anything other than a warning and a stern talking-to."Huffington told reporters that she does not expect Kalanick, whom she has called the "heart and soul" of the company, to step down as CEO as a result of the investigation. "It's not something that's been addressed because it has not come up, and we do not expect it to come up," she said.Follow Allison Tierney on Twitter.