Fox To Pay $1M Fine In NYC Human Rights Law Case

Yahoo News reports:

Despite Fox News’ claims to have repaired the company’s toxic workplace culture since the firing of founder and chairman Roger Ailes in July 2016, Rupert Murdoch’s media empire has effectively admitted to ongoing misconduct that includes sexual harassment, discrimination, and retaliation against victimized employees, and has agreed to pay a million-dollar fine for what New York City’s Commission on Human Rights called “a pattern of violating of the NYC Human Rights Law.”

The settlement agreement, reached last week with the human rights commission, contains the largest-ever financial penalty assessed in the agency’s six-decade history, and also requires Fox News to remove mandatory confidential arbitration clauses from the contracts of on-air talent along with other employees and contributors for a period of four years when they file legal claims under the city’s human-rights law outside of the company’s internal process.

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EXCLUSIVE: Fox News has effectively admitted to misconduct that includes sexual harassment, discrimination, and retaliation against victimized employees, and has agreed to pay a million-dollar fine for “a pattern of violating the NYC Human Rights Law” https://t.co/kktLzbVmMr

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) June 29, 2021

Labor lawyer Nancy Erika Smith, who represented former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson in the lawsuit that cost Ailes his job, called the settlement agreement, especially its admission of guilt, “monumental.”

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— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) June 29, 2021