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Uber Technologies Inc's Chief Executive Travis Kalanick asked Senior Vice President of Engineering Amit Singhal to resign after technology news website Recode informed Uber of the previous sexual harassment allegation at Alphabet Inc's Google.

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Uber Technologies Inc has asked a senior executive Amit Singhal to leave the company for failing to disclose a sexual harassment allegation stemming from his tenure at Alphabet Inc's Google, an Uber spokeswoman said on February 27, 2017. (BCCL)

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The move comes as the ride services company is investigating allegations of sexual harassment in its own organization. In the beginning of February 2017, a female former engineer at Uber said in a widely read blog post that managers and human resources officers at the company had not punished her manager after she reported his unwanted sexual advances, and even threatened her with a poor performance review. (BCCL)

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Uber last week hired former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to conduct a review of the claims, and Chief Executive Travis Kalanick called the allegations by Fowler "abhorrent and against everything Uber stands for and believes in". (BCCL)

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Kalanick on February 27, 2017, asked Senior Vice President of Engineering Amit Singhal to resign after technology news website Recode informed Uber of the previous sexual harassment allegation, the Uber spokeswoman said. (BCCL)

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Amit Singhal, who was hired in January 2017, did not disclose the allegations when Uber hired him, nor were they revealed by reference checks, the Uber spokeswoman said.

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Amit Singhal did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment. In a statement to Recode, he denied the allegation of harassment but acknowledged a dispute with Google. (BCCL)

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“Harassment is unacceptable in any setting. I certainly want everyone to know that I do not condone and have not committed such behavior,” Singhal wrote to Recode. “In my 20-year career, I’ve never been accused of anything like this before and the decision to leave Google was my own.” (BCCL)

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Amit Singhal led Google's search division, the financial powerhouse of Alphabet. He left Google about a year ago after 15 years at the company, saying he planned to focus on philanthropy. He announced his plan to join Uber in January, saying he would work closely with Kalanick on the company's self-driving car program. (BCCL)

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The Uber spokeswoman said the company did not believe its hiring process was flawed, but rather it was an issue with Amit Singhal's failure to disclose the matter. (BCCL)

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