A former Uber employee claimed he was fired last year after sticking up for female colleagues facing sexual harassment, according to a formal complaint that has not previously been made public.
Will Evans
Senior Reporter and Producer
Will Evans is a senior reporter and producer for Reveal, covering labor and tech. His reporting has prompted government investigations, legislation, reforms and prosecutions. A series on working conditions at Amazon warehouses was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize and won a Gerald Loeb Award. His work has also won multiple Investigative Reporters and Editors Awards, including for a series on safety problems at Tesla. Other investigations have exposed secret spying at Uber, illegal discrimination in the temp industry and rampant fraud in California's drug rehab system for the poor. Prior to joining The Center for Investigative Reporting in 2005, Evans was a reporter at The Sacramento Bee. He is based in Reveal's Emeryville, California, office.
Posted inInequality, Workers’ Rights
‘This is a man’s job’ remark leads to settlement, but manager stays
The manager still works at Automation Personnel Services, a Alabama-based temp agency, where rampant discrimination was found in a Reveal investigation.
Posted inAccountability, The Trump Era, Worked Over
Trump’s labor agenda: Cutting accountability, safety and training
President Trump has already rolled back or stalled regulations meant to protect workers from wage theft, harassment, on-the-job injuries, greedy financial advisors and cancer-causing dust. And that’s all without a new secretary of labor.
Posted inAccountability
Trump budget targets programs that help people get jobs
Trump has promised to create 25 million jobs over the next decade, but his proposed budget shrinks key job programs designed to help laid-off workers and low-income adults break into the workforce.
Posted inAccountability, Immigration, Inequality, The Trump Era, Worked Over
How Trump is transforming America’s anti-discrimination watchdog
With two more Trump appointments to come, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will lurch from a Democratic majority to a Republican one. Acting Chairwoman Victoria Lipnic’s voting record shows what is at stake.
Posted inInequality, Worked Over
Here’s one plan to stop exploitation in the temp industry
An Illinois bill would require temp agencies to track the race and gender of all job applicants. Supporters say it would provide evidence of discrimination when agencies shut out black workers in favor of Latino workers considered easier to exploit.
Posted inInequality, The Trump Era
With Trump in charge, a key transgender rights case gets delayed
In recent years, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has aggressively pushed to protect gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender workers under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by interpreting the law’s ban on sex discrimination as covering sexual orientation and gender identity.
Posted inMoney and Politics, The Trump Era
This is how much Trump’s labor pick dislikes minimum wage hikes
Andrew Puzder, President Donald Trump’s nominee for labor secretary, really doesn’t like minimum wage increases: He once spent $10,000 to oppose a pay bump of one dollar an hour.
Posted inAccountability
Why privacy advocates are worried about Uber’s security problems
Blackmail. Espionage. Hacking. These are the potential threats that worry Claire Gartland, of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, about former Uber employees’ description of how the ride-hailing giant handles customer data.
Posted inAccountability, Surveillance and Privacy
Uber said it protects you from spying. Security sources say otherwise
Uber insists it has strict policies that prohibit employees from accessing users’ trip information, with limited exceptions. But five former Uber secu