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- NEW YORK — A top engineering executive at Uber, Amit Singhal, is out five weeks after his hire was announced. According to a report in the tech blog Recode, Singhal was asked to resign after the company learned he failed to disclose that he’d left his previous job at Google because of a sexual harassment allegation.
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Mar 12, 2019 · We now know from a newly unsealed lawsuit that former senior search vice president Amit Singhal was initially offered $45 million, triple the amount he ended up walking away with. The figure...
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•Amit Singhal was awarded $35 million in severance after leaving the company amid sexual misconduct claims.
•Details became available from a shareholder lawsuit against the company and several of its officials.
•The suit alleges that the settlement opens the company to reputational and financial damage.
Google paid former search executive Amit Singhal $35 million in an exit package when he was reportedly forced to resign after a sexual assault investigation, according to court documents released Monday.
Details of the exit package were revealed as part of a shareholder lawsuit against the company, one that followed a published report of payouts Google made to executives accused of sexual misconduct.
The lawsuit targets the board of Google parent Alphabet, charging its members had a duty to protect the company and its shareholders from risk and reputation damage. Instead, it says, the board agreed to pay off and otherwise support male executives facing misconduct charges — opening the company to reputational and financial damage by doing so.
Previously redacted portions of the lawsuit were made available Monday, including quotes from Alphabet board committee meetings.
One portion of the minutes showed Singhal, a senior vice president of search who left the company in 2016, received two $15 million payments and a payment of between $5 million to $15 million as part of a separation agreement. The total payment could have been up to $45 million.
Singhal was one subject of a New York Times investigation last year that revealed Google paid Android creator Andy Rubin $90 million in a severance package after the company found allegations of sexual assault against him were credible. Rubin has denied the claims.
Singhal has also denied the claims against him, saying in a statement to the AP in 2017 he had not been accused of harassment before and he left Google on his own terms. Singhal did not immediately return a request for comment Monday.
Previously, the Times reported Singhal was paid "millions" in an exit package. Singhal later joined Uber, but left after just five weeks. News reports at the time said he failed to tell Uber he left Google because of a sexual harassment allegation.
Google acknowledged the unredacted claims in the lawsuit Monday and said in a statement there are "serious consequences for anyone who behaves inappropriately at Google."
"In recent years, we've made many changes to our workplace and taken an increasingly hard line on inappropriate conduct by people in positions of authority," the company said in an emailed statement.
The company was pressured to make changes by employee action last year. After news of Rubin's massive payout, tens of thousands of Google workers around the world walked out of work in November to protest the company's handling of sexual misconduct claims.
Google promised to be more forceful in handling such cases and ended mandatory arbitration in cases of sexual misconduct.
But the backlash has continued. Google Walkout organizers are still fighting the company on specific demands, and high-profile engineers have quit the company.
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Mar 11, 2019 · Google paid former search executive Amit Singhal $35 million US in an exit package when he was reportedly forced to resign after a sexual assault investigation, according to court documents...
Mar 11, 2019 · Google agreed to pay Amit Singhal, who ran its search division, as much as $45 million after he was accused of groping an employee, according to a court filing on Monday. Jason Henry for The...
Mar 11, 2019 · The Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google paid former search executive Amit Singhal $35 million in an exit package when he was reportedly forced to resign after a sexual assault...
Mar 12, 2019 · March 12, 2019, 5:30 AM PDT. By Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO — Google paid former search executive Amit Singhal $35 million in an exit package when he was reportedly forced to resign after a...
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