PRESIDING OFFICER’S DECISION IMPOSING PENALTIES AGAINST UBER TECHNOLOGIES, INC. FOR VIOLATING THE ASSIGNED ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGE’S DECEMBER 19, 2019 AND JANUARY 27, 2020 RULINGS REQUIRING INFORMATION REGARDING SEXUAL ASSAULT AND SEXUAL HARASSMENT CLAIMS
Summary
This Presiding Officer’s Decision finds that Uber Technologies, Inc. (Uber) refused, without any legitimate legal or factual grounds, to comply with the Assigned Administrative Law Judge’s Rulings dated December 19, 2019 and January 27, 2020 which required Uber to provide information regarding sexual assault and sexual harassment claims arising out of Uber’s California transportation network company passenger services, and to provide information regarding the authorship of Uber’s US Safety Report. As a result of this defiance of the Commission’s regulatory authority, Uber has violated Rule 1.1 of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure (Rules), as well as Public Utilities Code Sections 5378(a) and (b), and 5415, and shall be penalized in the amount of $59,085,000.00. Uber’s permits to operate as a Transportation Network Company and a Charter-party Carrier shall be suspended if Uber fails to perform all of the following tasks by the deadline imposed: (1) pay the penalty amount in full; (2) comply with the Assigned Administrative Law Judge’s Rulings dated December 19, 2019 and January 27, 2020 in the manner described herein within 30 days from the date this decision is issued; and (3) work with Commission staff in the Consumer Protection and Enforcement Division, Transportation Enforcement Branch to develop a code or numbering system to substantially comply with the ALJ ruling as a substitute for the actual names and other personally identifiable information requested in order to allow the Commission to conduct its regulatory functions
