Uber he lost one of his highest direct after having been accused of sexual harassment in the workplace in an article published on September 26 by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).

Cameron Poetzscher, the former head of business development Uber to oversee a series of leading deals in a private transport company, resigned on Monday, confirmed by Uber WSJ.

The incidents linked to misconduct from the executive, who had been in the business for almost five years, has happened since before Dara Khosrowshahi became CEO from Uber in August 2017.

In fact, Poetzscher he had already been sanctioned last year after demonstrating that he was in the habit of performing obscene and misguided comments to some of his colleagues and about them to other colleagues, according to the American newspaper. In 2015, it was also investigated for masturbating so-called in front of the nurse of your children.

"After concerns that arose in 2017, an outside law firm conducted a confidential review and I was legitimately disciplined," Poetzscher said in a statement issued at the time. Reuters.

In a statement sent to The wealth, Uber reported that Poetzscher will be temporarily replaced by Nelson Chai, the finance director of society, while they find a replacement.

Sexual harassment at work in Uber

Several leaders of the San Francisco-based company have been accused of sexual harassment and Uber was noted to allow a toxic work environment. Since the former engineer of the company Susan Fowler denounced in 2017 his experience about what happened in the offices of the private transport company, 14 executives left the company in the following months.

At the end of last August, Uber was about to finalize an agreement establishing that $ 1.9 million to be paid for sexual harassment and sex discrimination within your company. The amount will be divided between 56 current and former employees.

In addition, he faces a class action presented last October by three software engineers of Latin origin in which they accused Uber of discrimination against women and people of color. Complainants they will each receive about $ 11,000 on average as part of a $ 10 million deal signed by the private transportation company in March.