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Female drivers, would you like to comment?
- Female drivers for Uber and Lyft say lewd comments from passengers happen regularly.
- Speaking to The Guardian, many women said they feel the companies often aren't helpful in investigating incidents.
- In statements to Business Insider, both companies affirmed their commitments to safety, and noted many of the offending riders reported by the paper have been kicked off the platforms.
https://www.businessinsider.com/female-uber-lyft-drivers-say-sexual-harassment-is-rampant-2019-6
Comments
Isn’t this one of the examples where being an independent contractor and it an employee limits the protection?
I’m not sure how much Uber and Lyft can do.
They call us IC to skirt all local and federal labor laws and they call themselves a technology company to skirt transportation laws. Uber is nothing more than a taxi service with an app.
Harassment of female employees happens more than it should at every company with regular employees and the consequences are dire. Check out the Susan Fowler story with Uber. They have a toxic corporate culture. Uber never takes the drivers side, for them the driver is like yesterday's newspaper but the passenger is the goose that lays the golden egg.
You might be thinking about internal sexual harassment cases where employers can do more to protect its employees. However this is about passengers.
Sure there a lot more the company can do. Take complains to riders more seriously, ban or warn riders, be more explicit about what’s not permitted in the guidelines, etc.
If Uber decides to not do any of it for the sake of revenue, yeah, we have a systematic problem.
That's correct, female drivers are subject to a lot more harassment than male drivers. Why doesn't UBER algorithms match female drivers with female pax first? Easily attainable. They don't care!
I smell lawsuit all over that though. Safr got suited big time for trying to only hire female drivers. I suppose hiring is different than an algo that matches existing females up...
Can someone smarter than I comment? :)
A lot of issues with Uber & Lyft could such as service animals, female drivers being matched with female pax first, pax requesting the same driver again for their next ride etc. could be easily fixed in the app. We’re not hired, we’re IC.
They just don’t care!
Please don't tell me you guys are surprised about these findings. Lewd comments?! LOL.