Fox Agrees to Paying $1 Million Fine for Violating Human Rights Law.

Fox News has paid out millions of dollars to those that have been the victims of sexual harassment at the network.

Fox News has also paid out millions of dollars to those that were accused of harassing the victims.

Now, Lloyd Grove writes that Rupert Murdoch’s media empire has effectively admitted to ongoing misconduct that includes sexual harassment, discrimination, and retaliation against victimized employees, and has agreed to pay a million-dollar fine for what New York City’s Commission on Human Rights called “a pattern of violating of the NYC Human Rights Law.”

The settlement agreement, reached last week with the human rights commission, contains the largest-ever financial penalty assessed in the agency’s six-decade history, and also requires Fox News to remove mandatory confidential arbitration clauses from the contracts of on-air talent along with other employees and contributors for a period of four years when they file legal claims under the city’s human-rights law outside of the company’s internal process.

It “also demands immediate changes to policies surrounding reporting sexual harassment, retaliation, training, and compliance with the NYC Human Rights Law,” according to a statement from the commission, which added: “The Commission will monitor the network on a quarterly basis for a period of 2 years to ensure compliance.”

Fox released a statement, “We are pleased to reach an amicable resolution of this legacy matter. FOX News Media has already been in full compliance across the board, but cooperated with the New York City Commission on Human Rights to continue enacting extensive preventive measures against all forms of discrimination and harassment.”

While the fine is “the largest-ever financial penalty assessed in the agency’s six-decade history,” it is only a million dollars, which is a drop in the bucket compared to what Fox has paid out to victims.

Just saying….