ESPN and host Sage Steele have settled the lawsuit she filed after being disciplined for comments she made in 2021 about the company’s policy requiring employees to get the COVID-19
ESPN and host Sage Steele have settled the lawsuit she filed after being disciplined for comments she made in 2021 about the company’s policy requiring employees to get the COVID-19 vaccine
ESPN and host Sage Steele have settled the lawsuit she filed after being disciplined for comments she made in 2021 about the company’s policy requiring employees to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Steele posted on social media Tuesday that she is leaving the company, where she has worked since 2007, so that she can more freely exercise her First Amendment rights. According to her lawsuit, Steele was taken off the air for 10 days and removed from some high profile assignments after saying on a podcast that it was “sick” for a company to mandate the vaccine. ESPN in June offered to settle the suit for just over $500,000. Terms of the ultimate settlement were not immediately released.