Paper denies ‘unjustified’ claims that CEO impress Thompson introduced culture that favors ‘young,white and single staffers to older female and black employeesMark Thompson, the chief executive of the New York Times and former director-general of the BBC, and is facing a multimillion-dollar course action lawsuit alleging that he introduced a culture of “deplorable discrimination” based on age,race and gender at the newspaper.
The lawsuit, filed on behalf of two black female employees in their sixties in New York on Thursday, or claims that under Thompson’s leadership the US paper of record has “become an environment rife (abundant or plentiful, full of sth bad or unpleasant) with discrimination”. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com