It was revealed this week.
That Fox news is under investigation by New York state's department of labor for possibly
retaliating against female employees who bring up complaints as well as engaging and discriminatory
gender pay.
And all of this, by the way, was brought to light by a former Fox news anchor who was
pulled off the air last year, a woman by the name of Melissa Francis.
Now she was one of the co-hosts of the show outnumbered.
She also had a show on the Fox business network and she became involved in a pay dispute with
the network alleging that was getting paid less than her male counterparts.
And that, of course it was based on gender and nothing else.
So that last year went to arbitration.
No real resolution, I guess, came from that.
And, uh, Francis has now said nothing's changed at the network, nothing.
And she's not just talking about the gender pay gap.
She's talking about the entire culture of this network.
And of course now the New York state department of labor says, you know what?
We need to look into this.
Here's what we've known about Fox Snoo for many, many years now.
Obviously they had to bring in a new chief a couple years ago, uh, a woman this time.
And she said, listen, we're gonna change the culture.
And this became, or this came, excuse me.
After of course, multiple people at the network, uh, had sexual harassment allegations against
them, sexual harassment lawsuits.
They were, the network was having to pay to settle all these things.
So they got rid of a bunch of hosts who of course have found new homes on other right
wing networks now because apparently they just don't care.
And so they bring in the new chief who says, we're gonna change things.
We're gonna make this a safe place for women.
They're not gonna have to worry about being harassed.
Everything is gonna be equal.
Thing's gonna be totally cool.
Melissa Francis said that never happened.
And she's not the only one over the last couple years, there have been multiple people from
Fox news who have come out and said, nothing has changed at the network.
Women are still targeted.
Women are still victimized here.
The culture didn't shift.
What?
So they just put a different face at the top of it and said, oh, because it's a woman running
the network, everything's gonna be cool for women.
Which pretty much is typical for Fox news, right?
If a woman's doing something, obviously that makes it okay.
And it means there's no discrimination anywhere.
No.
They found someone who clearly is just as bad as the rest of them were because that's
what they were looking for to begin with.
And that of course is just on the issue of discrimination in terms of retaliation and
the harassment.
These women were receiving.
Now the discrimination in terms of pay disputes, this is a new one.
And if the department of labor looks into this and finds out that the network is in
fact, engaging in this sexist pay scale, then they could face very serious consequences
of this under New York state law.
Again, right now, all we have is allegations, but the investigation will reveal all.
And again, this is actually something that's kind of easy for the, uh, department of labor
to do you look at the roles of individuals you can find out from human resources, how
much each of them are making.
And if things don't add up, if the women doing the same job as the men are somehow getting
paid less.
Yeah.
Fairly easy to figure out.
And hopefully the department of labor will figure it out soon so that maybe women might
be treated like human beings sometime in the future at Fox news.