The taxi driver was suspended from the online ride platform after a woman accused him of verbal sexual harassment. The driver named Zhao was suspended a total of 21 days after he allegedly praised his passenger and said, “He smells good”.
After the passenger registered a complaint on June 8, the driver was blocked from the cabin aggregator platform, Zhejiang TV informed. The driver asked the woman three times if she was wearing any perfume.
“The smell of your body is so good,” the driver said after a woman said she hadn’t used any scent. According to the passenger of the woman, the pleasant scent of liquid detergent, after which the driver asked about the specific brand of detergent.
According to the report, the woman revealed the brand of washing and left the vehicle before reaching her destination. A few hours later, the woman filed a complaint about the car furniture platform. The company initiated proceedings in this case and reviewed the voice recordings before the announcement of the sentence.
Zhao, however, claimed that he was pleasant in his behavior when he asked the smell of perfume. He said his tone was “polite” and said, “I just don’t understand it. I didn’t say anything wrong!”
“If she didn’t answer me, I shouldn’t ask her,” Zhejiang TV quoted the driver like he said.
When addressing the media, the woman said she felt uncomfortable when the driver asked her several times about the perfume while looked at her through the rear view mirror. She saw it as a potential threat to her safety and claimed that she had maintained politeness during the conversation to avoid his provocation.
The woman who prevented her actions said, “My polite answers were interpreted as accessible to him. I believe every passenger, regardless of sex, felt uncomfortable if the driver made such remarks.”
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