Facebook to End Forced Arbitration for Sexual-Harassment Claims
Social-networking giant also revises policy for senior executives dating employees
Facebook Inc. is ending its policy of requiring employee sexual-harassment claims to be settled in private arbitration, a day after Google rolled back a similar policy under rising pressure from employees.
The rule change, which will let Facebook employees pursue those claims in court, was announced in an internal post to staff on Friday, a spokesman for the company said. The social networking giant has also updated its interoffice dating policy to require any executive at a director level or above to disclose if they are...