Sentences with phrase «by former employees at»

The New York Times recently reported that Cambridge Analytica mined private data from the Facebook profiles of those users without their consent, as revealed by former employees at the data analytics company.

Sexual harassment in the workplace is in the spotlight after widespread publicity of claims by a former employee at technology firm Uber.

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'» Another former employee suggests the reluctance wasn't Fisher's alone; all public relations decisions had to be vetted by headquarters in the U.S. at the time.

It did submit data from its herpes blood test to the FDA (which approved it), but a former Theranos employee cited by the Journal said that, at the end of 2014, the company only used its technology for 15 blood tests out of at least 225.

Racial discrimination in hiring and employment practices continued at investment bank Morgan Stanley (ms) despite a class - action settlement more than a decade ago, according to a new lawsuit filed Thursday by a former employee.

Well, take a look at this Quora thread, which is being used by current and former Google employees to dish the dirt on working for Big G.

But one former employee, citing internal information shared by a manager, said the total number fired is higher than 700 at this point.

This prompted several investigations at Uber, including one headed by former Attorney General Eric Holder, which led to the recent firing of more than 20 employees.

The news of Greyball comes as Uber struggles with several company mishaps and controversies, including allegations of sexual harassment by a former employee and co-founder Travis Kalanick's outburst at one of the company's drivers.

But Monday's lawsuit, filed by former Tesla employee Marcus Vaughn, is the first to bring those claims on behalf of a large class of black workers at the automaker's Fremont, California factory.

At a packed meeting with employees on Tuesday morning, Uber released 13 pages of recommendations compiled as part of an investigation into sexual harassment and other wrongdoing conducted by the former attorney general Eric H. Holder Jr. and his law firm, Covington & Burling.

NEW YORK, Nov 12 (Reuters)- A small cadre of employees at Valeant Pharmaceuticals International were deeply involved in directing the daily operations of a specialty pharmacy that has drawn scrutiny for its billing practices, according to four former employees at the pharmacy and company documents reviewed by Reuters.

Recruiters are saving time and money by filling positions with former employees who have thrived at the company in the past.

(j) Using litigations commenced by two former Retrophin employees (Jackson Su and Chun Yi Huang) in an effort to obtain their Retrophin shares for himself at Retrophin's expense.

At the heart of the story is Fusion GPS, a Washington - based research firm founded by former Wall Street Journal employees.

SAN FRANCISCO — After nearly five months of digging into Uber's internal culture, its new chief human resources officer says the ride - hailing company's treatment of women — which gave it a public black eye after charges of persistent sexism and discrimination were detailed by a former employee — is no worse at Uber than at other companies.

At Uber, former employees say the system bred competition and infighting that was made worse by whirlwind growth and sprawling, decentralized management.

According to extensive interviews Recode conducted with former and current employees at the self - driving effort, many think it is at a technological standstill and plagued by significant internal tension, especially among its executive leadership.

«Government documents revealed that B.C. taxpayers have been fronting legal fees for at least six of Christy Clark's current and former employees in connection to the so - called «Quick Wins» scandal and the ongoing criminal investigation by Special Prosecutor David Butcher,» said David Eby, MLA for Vancouver Point Grey.

Humphrey and Yu had been hired by GSK before the scandal broke out to investigate a former employee the company suspected could be the source of emails alleging wrongdoing at the company sent to upper management as well as a tape filmed secretly of ex-China chief Mark Reilly being intimate with a girlfriend in his home.

The company is still reeling from a blog post written by Susan Fowler, a former Uber employee, who claimed she was sexually harassed by a manager at the company and was ignored when she complained to the human resources department.

Tiff's Treats, started by former University of Texas at Austin students Leon and Tiffany Chen in 1999, now has more than 700 employees at 34 stores in Texas and Atlanta.

Interviews with more than a dozen former and current Mavericks employees in different departments, conducted during a months - long SPORTS ILLUSTRATED investigation, paint a picture of a corporate culture rife with misogyny and predatory sexual behavior: alleged public fondling by the team president; outright domestic assault by a high - profile member of the Mavs.com staff; unsupportive or even intimidating responses from superiors who heard complaints of inappropriate behavior from their employees; even an employee who openly watched pornography at his desk.

Members of a special team at the U.S. Education Department that had been investigating widespread abuses by for - profit colleges have been marginalized, reassigned or instructed to focus on other matters, according to current and former employees.

There were reports that Mike Bloomberg didn't like the splashy look of the last redesign, by now - former employee Josh Topolsky, and questioned the need for having the site at all.

According to the documents and former employees, any contracts won by Cambridge, originally incorporated in Delaware, would be serviced by London - based SCL and overseen by Mr. Nix, a British citizen who held dual appointments at Cambridge Analytica and SCL.

The state correctional officers union is slamming the chair of the Assembly Correction Committee, Manhattan Democrat Danny O'Donnell, for saying at a recent hearing that former Fishskill Correctional Facility inmate Samuel Harrell was murdered by state employees.

The Public Employees Federation's former President Susan Kent and ex - Secretary / Treasurer Carlos Garcia have gone to federal court seeking compensation of at least $ 1 million, contending they were unfairly banned from union activities due to their handling of an alleged embezzlement by a regional official.

Align Media and a computer software company called VoterTrove — both owned by former Republican state Senate employee Justin Gargiulo — have done more than $ 30,000 worth of political election work in Connecticut, including jobs for the campaigns of at least seven present or former GOP state senators, since 2012.

A second source said Schwartz, who will be paid a yet - to - be-determined fee by the state, was actually hired to deflect public attention from the seriousness of Bharara's probe, which involves former top Cuomo aides Joseph Percoco, now executive vice president at Madison Square Garden, lobbyist and former Cuomo employee Todd Howe, and contractors connected to the $ 1 billion effort in Buffalo.

At a news conference after proposing a bill to strengthen penalties for domestic - violence offenders, Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, was asked by public - radio reporter Karen DeWitt if he would make changes in light of a lawsuit alleging a former Cuomo aide sexually assaulted a state employee.

The New York State Inspector General's Office says it is continuing its investigation into the embezzlement of funds from the University at Buffalo by two former employees, including a longtime vice president.

Who started it Litecoin was started by Charles Lee, a former Google employee who now works at Coinbase, a bitcoin exchange in California.

(At the time, it didn't help that he was embroiled in a sexual harassment lawsuit by former employee Whitney Wolfe, founder of new female - friendly dating app Bumble.)

Now this wasn't exactly the same group as before, but it was predominantly the same group that worked on the Hudson Soft Mario Party games and at the time was led by former Hudson Soft employees.

The case at hand is a civil suit involves the widow of a stockbroker who was one of many shot and killed by an irate former employee who was fired the week before.

But documents obtained by The New York Times and interviews with 10 current and former Success employees at five schools suggest that some administrators in the network have singled out children they would like to see leave.

The Education Practices Commission consists of 25 members, including 8 teachers; 5 administrators, at least one of whom shall represent a private school; 7 lay citizens, 5 of whom shall be parents of public school students and who are unrelated to public school employees and 2 of whom shall be former district school board members; and 5 sworn law enforcement officials, appointed by the State Board of Education from nominations by the Commissioner of Education and subject to Senate confirmation.

readers know, Achievement First Inc. was co-founded by Stefan Pryor, Malloy's Commissioner of Education, and the office responsible for reviewing charter school operations is run by Morgan Barth, a former Achievement First, Inc. employee who taught and served as an administrator illegally during 6 of his years at Achievement First, Inc..

Morgan Barth, a former long - time employee of Achievement First Inc., was recruited by Commissioner Pryor in 2013 to leave Achievement First and join him at the State Department of Education.

WASHINGTON — Members of a special team at the Education Department that had been investigating widespread abuses by for - profit colleges have been marginalized, reassigned or instructed to focus on other matters, according to current and former employees.

Located in Gardena, California at a former Nissan R&D center, FF currently has 200 employees and plans to grow that number to 300 by 2016 with about 10 new hires per week.

Spawtique is owned and operated by Suzy Korn, a California Certified Groomer & Registered Veterinary Technician, and a former employee here at Rancho Santa Fe Veterinary Hospital!

Without getting into the weeds, the county has made positive changes and acted to improve the situation at the shelter by letting a former employee go, and enforcing standard operating procedures such as proper cleaning, feeding schedules and intake procedures.

The company was founded by Dennis Mendel, a former scholar of game studies at Fraunhofer (focusing on game preservation, gaming literacy, and media effects) and past employee of Square Enix as well as Benedict Braitsch, a student of media science.

The story was further obscured by a lawsuit between a subset of current and former Infinity Ward employees and their parent company, Activision; anyone involved was advised to avoid talking about the game at all.

Accusations of the same treatment and unpaid vacation / overtime have been leveled at the management of Rockstar San Diego by numerous spouses and former employees.

Look at Playtonic, founded by and staffed by former Rare employees: it's just a fraction of Rare, and it only went and did the highest - funded UK video game in Kickstarter history.

The former co-publisher of Artforum, Knight Landesman, has filed a motion in a New York court to dismiss a suit brought by former Artforum employee Amanda Schmitt who alleges that Landesman subjected her to sexual harassment throughout and after her time at the magazine.

At the trial, several former Knoedler employees — including Melissa De Medeiros, who was Freedman's assistant, and Edye Weissler, the gallery's librarian — said they had done provenance research into the Rosales works to find documentation that proved the paintings were purchased decades ago by a Swiss collector with the help of either Ossorio or Herbert.