2021/06/30 09:53 FILE- People pass the News Corporation headquarters building and Fox News studios in New York on Aug. 1, 2017. New York City s human rights commissio. FILE- People pass the News Corporation headquarters building and Fox News studios in New York on Aug. 1, 2017. New York City s human rights commission has fined Fox News $1 million for violation of laws protecting against sexual harassment and job retaliation. It s the largest such penalty in the commission s history. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File) NEW YORK (AP) The New York City Commission on Human Rights has fined Fox News $1 million, the largest penalty in its history, for violations of laws protecting against sexual harassment and job retaliation.
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FILE- People pass the News Corporation headquarters building and Fox News studios in New York on Aug. 1, 2017. New York City s human rights commission has fined Fox News $1 million for violation of laws protecting against sexual harassment and job retaliation. It s the largest such penalty in the commission s history. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
NEW YORK (AP) – The New York City Commission on Human Rights has fined Fox News $1 million, the largest penalty in its history, for violations of laws protecting against sexual harassment and job retaliation.
As part of a settlement agreement announced Tuesday, Fox also agreed to mandate anti-harassment training for its New York-based staff and contributors and to temporarily drop a policy requiring people who allege misconduct to enter into binding arbitration.
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As part of its probe into sexual harassment claims made against Fox News, New York City s Commission on Human Rights fined the network $1 million on Tuesday.
The fine is the highest ordered in the commission s history,
USA Today reports, and the first settlement against a major news network. The investigation began after several Fox News personalities including former chief Roger Ailes and former anchors Bill O Reilly and Ed Henry were accused of sexual harassment and retaliation. Ailes died in 2017, one year after former
Fox & Friends co-host Gretchen Carlson sued him for sexual harassment.
As part of the settlement, Fox must also institute a policy and complaint procedure for the reporting of harassment and discrimination; provide harassment and bystander training that is approved by the human rights commission; and for four years, stop requiring mandatory arbitration over human rights claims made in New York. Mandatory arbitration, the commi