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A reporter who complained about age and sex discrimination at Fox News was punished for doing so, according to a suit filed by federal lawyers. After Catherine Herridge made several complaints to management about unequal pay and job conditions, she was asked to sign a contract including language aimed at preventing her from making more discrimination complaints, according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Herridge refused to sign and her subsequent status as an “at-will’ employee caused her “considerable stress," according to the lawsuit, which seeks damages and a court order preventing Fox from treating other employees the same way. "You cannot be retaliated against for making internal complaints about age and gender discrimination,” an EEOC attorney tells Politico.
