16 MAY

Fox News settles a slew of discrimination lawsuits for around $10 million

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Fox News reportedly reached a $ 10 million settlement for several discrimination lawsuits filed by 18 current and former employees.
The ranged from claims of racial, gender, and pregnancy discrimination.
The settlement would force the plaintiffs to drop their claims and find employment elsewhere, never to return to Fox News’s parent company, 21st Century Fox.

Fox News reportedly reached a $ 10 million settlement for several discrimination lawsuits filed by 18 current and former employees, according to The New York Times.

The lawsuits ranged from claims of mistreatment based on racial, gender, and pregnancy, including one that alleged no action was taken after repeated complaints about what was described as “abhorrent, intolerable, unlawful and hostile racial discrimination.”

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