Consumer Confidential: Uber and Lyft see the light on sexual assault, but they could do a whole lot better
by David Lazarus, Los Angeles Times
May 21, 2018
4 minutes
Ride-sharing giants Uber and Lyft patted themselves on the back this week for adopting a totally #MeToo policy that victims of sexual assault and harassment won't be held to the companies' forced-arbitration requirement and will be able to seek their day in court.
"We have learned it's important to give sexual assault and harassment survivors control of how they pursue their claims," Tony West, Uber's chief legal officer, said in a blog post.
He said the company will allow such people to sue rather than arbitrate and will not hold them to any confidentiality agreements. "They will be free to tell their story wherever and however they see fit,"
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