Monday, March 23, 2015

Former employee processes the Twitter sex discrimination – Terra Brazil

A former employee of Twitter filed a lawsuit against the company for sex discrimination. According to the site CourtHouseNews , the engineer Tina Huang claims that it was not promoted while working in the company, due to the strict promotion rules that benefit men, the company performs.

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In response, Twitter says that the facts will show that the former employee was treated fairly

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In his profile on LinkedIn, Tina says that worked between 2009 and 2014 on Twitter. The legal site, it says that the American company’s promotion system creates a “glass ceiling” for women that can not be explained or justified.

Tina says he lost two promotions in 2013, without adequate explanation, though she has experience in companies like Google and Apple and several years working in Twitter. It also shows that many of his colleagues, with the same time firm, already reach management positions or direction in the microblog.

The Twitter diversity report, released in 2014, shows a large difference in the amount of women and men in leadership positions, 79 men against 21 women.

Twitter responded to tech site TechCrunch on the process. The company claimed that Tina left the company on his own and that Twitter believes in a diverse and collaborative environment. The company also claims that the facts will show that the former employee was treated fairly.

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