Uber Fires 20 Amid Investigation Into Workplace Culture –
By MIKE ISAACJUNE 6, 2017
Uber has fired more than 20 employees in conjunction with an internal investigation into its workplace culture, according to a current Uber employee.
Uber has hired former United States Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.
and his law firm, Covington & Burling, to conduct an independent investigation of those claims and Uber’s overall culture.
Uber’s terminations announced on Tuesday stem from a separate investigation conducted by Perkins Coie, another law firm hired by Uber.
Lawyers from Perkins Coie consulted with Uber on the internal investigation, and Uber acted upon that firm’s recommendations.
Other employees reported systemic issues within Uber, where a premium was placed on strong performance
and growth, often at the expense of other workplace behavior.

Videos of Girls Forced to Do Splits at Cheer Camp Prompt Police Investigation
He cautioned that those officials should not be prejudged, and that placing them on leave was “standard practice.”
The Police Department said in its statement, also released on Wednesday,
that it had “received anonymous information regarding the incidents involving a cheerleader coach at East High School, and Denver Police child abuse detectives immediately began an investigation.”
The announcements came as a widely circulated video showed a 13-year-old girl, an incoming freshman, being forced into the position, with one leg to her front
and the other stretched behind her, even as she pleads repeatedly to “please stop” and appears to cry out in pain.
The allegations have also resulted in five officials from Denver Public Schools being placed on leave — including the principal, assistant principal
and cheerleading coach at East High School — the school system’s superintendent, Tom Boasberg, said in a statement released on Wednesday.
On June 15, Kirstin Wakefield, the mother of the girl seen the video, sent an email to the assistant principal who
was put on leave this week, asking what the administration planned to do about the incidents, according to KUSA
This is Mr. Williams’s first year coaching for East High School, according to KUSA, and this week was the first of East High’s academic year.
The Denver Police Department announced this week that it was investigating allegations
that girls at a high school cheerleading camp had been forced into a painful splits position by their coach and teammates.