News Corp.'s Fox News Network has paid $225,000 to settle a sex discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
The commission filed the suit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, on behalf of four women who were subjected to a sexually hostile workplace.
The lawsuit claimed that Fox Vice President Joe Chillemi harassed female employees and subjected them to less favorable treatment than males.
According to the suit, female workers were faced with obscenities and vulgarities used in describing women or their body parts, including derogatory comments about pregnant women, were cursed at and denigrated and were generally treated in a demeaning manner.
Under the consent decree submitted Monday, Fox will maintain a revised anti-discrimination policy, train employees and managers on federal law prohibiting discrimination, and post a remedial notice and the EEOC poster required by federal law.
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