E-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding is currently facing sexual allegations from one of its employees, with the allegations saying that her boss and client sexually assaulted her.

The woman had published an 11-page PDF on her account, which prompted social media in China to pick up the story.

The company is currently investigating the incident, according to a CNBC report.

A spokesperson of the company said that Alibaba has a zero-tolerance policy against sexual misconduct.

The spokesperson added that the company's top priority is to ensure a safe workplace for its employees. It added that they had suspended the involved employees, accused of violating their policies and values.

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Sexual Allegations

A female Alibaba staffer, who chose not to reveal her identity, claimed that her boss had coerced her into going on a business trip with him to meet one of her team's clients.

In her published record of events, she said that her boss had raped her while she was unconscious after a "drunken night," according to The New York Times report.

The woman said that she first reported the incident to the company, but there was no course of action after the incident.

Alibaba's chief executive, Daniel Zhang, said that the two senior managers had resigned for failing to respond to the report appropriately.

Zhang said that they are firing two male employees involved in the incident.

Alibaba is set to creating a space where employees can report such incidents, according to Zhang.

The case had created an online following after the woman had recounted her incident on the internet.

Alibaba had already been under criticism from the government after introducing a widespread campaign to control the growing hold of the country's tech giants.

Harassment in E-Commerce Companies

Five women had sued Amazon in May over race and gender discrimination, with one of the women accusing a manager of making homophobic comments, according to The Verge report.

The woman, Cindy Warner, had hired a lawyer and said that she was fired in retaliation.

Warner had recounted her allegations on a Medium post, saying that she will pursue her claims to prove Amazon how wrong the management's actions were.

The current AWS chief executive, Adam Selipsky, wrote in an email that he shared the concerns of the petition's authors. Selipsky added that Amazon was hiring an outside firm to investigate.

The AWS investigation is being eyed by the petitioners to be completed by Oct. 30.

Meanwhile, eBay had recently faced harassment after six former eBay employees.

The accused employees were said to have targeted the writers of a newsletter dedicated to famous online retails.

In their civil suit, Ina and David Steiner had alleged that eBay had engaged in a systematic campaign to emotionally and psychologically torture them in attempts to stifle their reporting on eBay, according to a Fox Business report.

The former eBay employees were also accused of planning a break-in to the accusers' garage. This was part of the said effort to install a GPS tracker on their car.

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Written by: Mary Webber

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