Fox News hit with sexual harassment lawsuit

[johnfunk]

Fox News hit with sexual harassment lawsuit
EEOC suit claims company retaliated against former worker for complaining
New York /AP Updated: 8:47 p.m. ET Nov. 7, 2005/ The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a sexual harassment lawsuit in federal court against News Corp.’s Fox News Network LLC.

A sexual harassment lawsuit by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against Fox News Network LLC contends that Fox retaliated against Kim Weiler, a former employee, for complaining about discrimination and that, as a result of the discrimination, Weiler and others at Fox were “constructively discharged” by the network. The suit does not state how many people were discharged.

The complaint contends that Joe Chillemi, a Fox vice president who supervised its advertising and promotions departments, sexually harassed and subjected Weiler and other women to a hostile work environment, routinely using obscenities and vulgarities to describe women or their body parts.

[Christa]

1. All those disgusting men at Fox

:puke:

[Midnight Rambler]

2. Somehow I'm just not surprised

Any vibrators or vegetables involved in this one?

[marmar]

Bill O'Reilly would be very proud...

That network is f..ked up in every way.

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. Did she also date O'Lielly?

:rofl:

[bluestateguy]

4. The Bush controlled EEOC?

Must have slipped through the cracks. I'm sure Karl Rove will make a few phone calls and have this fixed.

[MidwestTransplant]

5. Fox puts the F in Falafel!

[joefree1]

6. Those freaks at faux news

Liars are also predators. No surprise there.

[tularetom]

7. Can Smoking Gun get the actual court documents?

This one could be interesting.

[janx]

8. They can't force their "wimmin" to look like tramps anymore?

:rofl:

[Independent_Liberal]

9. This is excellent!

Nice to see one of those sleazy bastards at Fox getting their just deserts!

[Erika]

10. I can't stop laughing. This is hilarious! GOP Corruption Continues

First O'Reilly and now one of the execs. Ah, the voice of fairness and balance, the voice of Bushco and the radical wacko religious fundamentalists.

The whole GOP party and its mouthpiece are tumbling down...and in very ugly ways.

[ismnotwasm]

11. Good.

I hate Fox news. As bad as they are, It wouldn't suprise me one bit that their work place sucks

[Selteri]

12. Another one? So much for those high standards. N/T

[Erika]

13. High standards

with the likes of O'Reilly?

Wonder how much Faux/Bushco news is going to settle for this time.

[Robert Oak]

14. EEOC is being gutted by Bush corp.

This is fairly amazing for EEOC is one of the many depts. under attack
by Bush corp. Since they can't change the law they undermine the agencies responsible for enforcing the law...

so hats off to the EEOC for making a case...
esp. against the Bush propaganda machine mouth piece FOX...that was probably harder still.

[fasttense]

15. Everything the wacko right-wing touches is corrupted.

Fox news diddles its female employees. Limpballs can't stay off the drugs. Libby writes porn with pedophilia and bestiality. Our vice President uses the country as cash cow. The Senate and House leaders are into money laundering and insider trading. The brain behind the administration uses national security in a political game. They all lied so Americans would support an illegal war... It is hard to believe that loving and good people actually support these thieves, liars and con men. Will it ever end?

[Cults4Bush]

16. Faux..... where the harassment is mmmm mmmm good.

These turd dicks can't even pay for the kinky sex they want, instead they have to force themselves on underlings.

[Christa]

17. And to top it the Libby kiddie porn novel

You rock, Repugs.

[Catfight]

18. Those 'christians' sure have a lot of darkness in their lives. nt

[Loonman]

19. FNC is pervert central

With O'Reilly as their King.

[wicket]

20. A culture of corruption

:grr:

[MadisonProgressive]

21. My short comment:

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :headbang: :headbang: :headbang: :nuke: :nopity: :evilgrin: :toast:

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

22. Right Wing Pigs

Another green-eyed cat sighted at Fux News.

[maxrandb]

23. Can Americans file a lawsuit

since Faux has created "a hostile work environment" all over the freaking country? They have also subjected the American people to "obscenities and vulgarities".

There was a great story in the Sunday Virginian Pilot about letters home from Iraq. I wish I could find it, because there was a Marine that wrote home and said that he had the opportunity to watch CNN/MSNBC/CBS and FOX one right after the other. He said; "Looking at it that way, I realized Fox was such a joke. I've never seen anything so biased in my life".

My new motto in response to this Marine: "Support the Troops...Give them leadership in Washington they can be proud of."

[femrap]

24. I would like to send the person at EEOC a letter of

thanks....any way to find out who I should sent it to?

thx for any help on this..

[UrbScotty]

25. Fox News? I'm shocked!

:sarcasm:

[chelsea0011]

26. Frat boys just letting off a little steam, as Rush would report it

[Shakespeare]

27. just an FYI..."constructive discharge" is a legal term that means....

...that working conditions were so hostile and intolerable that someone feels they have no choice but to quit their job. Whoever wrote this story seems unaware of the meaning of that term, judging by the sentence "The suit does not state how many people were discharged."

[DFWJock]

28. Was there

a loofah involved?

[Pacifist Patriot]

29. Thank you!

[crossroads]

30. And another Faux employee bites the dust!

It couldn't happen to a better station IMO!

[Rex]

31. What is it with Foxnews and hiring pervs?

Must be what their base wants to see.

[lovelaureng]

32. Who did Murdock piss off in the government

for this to finally happen?

[emad]

33. Equal rights watchdog sues Fox News for harassing women

Equal rights watchdog sues Fox News for harassing women

Julian Borger in Washington
Wednesday November 9, 2005
The Guardian


Rupert Murdoch's Fox News Channel is being sued by the US equal employment opportunity commission for harassing and discriminating against its female staff, it was reported yesterday. The EEOC commission, a federal agency, accused Fox of creating a "hostile work environment" for women because of their sex, after investigating discrimination claims by a former employee, Kim Weiler.

Its report singles out Joe Chillemi, vice president in charge of promotions and advertising at Fox, who it alleged "routinely used obscenities and vulgarities when describing women or their body parts". The lawsuit, filed in a federal court, alleged that Mr Chillemi "routinely cursed at and otherwise denigrated women employees", telling them to "be a man".


"At a department discussion about a segment on sexism in the workplace, Chillemi said that in choosing who to hire 'if it came down between a man or a woman, of course I'd pick the man. The woman would most likely get pregnant and leave'," the lawsuit alleged.
The commission also claimed Fox News routinely relegated female employees to freelance work, with less job security and fewer benefits. Ms Weiler was "constructively discharged", according to the commission report. That meant that "conditions became so intolerable, she was unable to work there", Judy Keenan, an EEOC lawyer, said.

Steven Mintz, a lawyer who represented Fox News during the investigation, told the New York Times: "We investigated the allegations and charges that were made and found them to be baseless ... Fox News questions the motivations behind the charges."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1637199,00.html

[zanne]

34. What does the red flower signify?

I've been watching the BBC lately and I've noticed alot of people wearing them in their lapels. What does it mean?

[gizmonic]

35. It's a red poppy -- signifies Armistice Day

Nov 11th.

[emad]

36. "On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day we shall remember them".

And, at the same time, never for even one teensy moment ever forget what Dumbass and Poodle have done.

[gizmonic]

37. Amen n/t

[sam sarrha]

40. I have been making "Black" Loop Ribbons for the needless war dead

they have a narrow black velvet ribbon at Walmart ...sorry i live in the ruaral South and they have put all other stores out of buisness. the town of Dyer is totally dead because of them.. most small communities have to drive 12 to 30 miles to get anything..

i make a loop and pin it on with the little gold, bra strap, safety pins. I pass them out to my friends..

for those who died for lies and corporate profit:cry: :grouphug:

[gizmonic]

42. I did the same...

I knitted some loop ribbons and gave them out last year....

:cry: :grouphug:

[sam sarrha]

38. There was a battle where so much blood was spilled the Iron turned the

turned the perviously white poppys Red over an emence area.

sorry i dont remember the place.

[AllegroRondo]

39. Flanders Field, Belgium

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders Fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders Fields.

-- John McCrae

[sam sarrha]

41. Thank you....