Les Moonves promoted a "zero tolerance policy" at CBS towards sexual harassment just last year
-
According to a company-wide memo obtained by Deadline that the CBS CEO sent on March 9, 2017 -- seven months before the Harvey Weinstein scandal broke -- Moonves said the company is committed to providing every employee with a professional work environment that’s free of discrimination and harassment. “Simply put,” Moonves wrote, “CBS has a zero-tolerance policy towards discrimination or sexual harassment in our company or related businesses. At every level of the organization, we are all responsible for treating each other in a fair, objective manner and for supporting the Company’s Affirmative Action and EEO policies and practices. And I hold all our managers accountable in this regard.” As Deadline put it, "Moonves’ own conduct will now be measured against that standard."
ALSO:
- CBS board of directors' average age is 73, with three women among 14 board members
- Moonves isn't hiding amid his scandal: He dined Sunday night with Julie Chen at hotspot Nobu Malibu
- How Ronan Farrow keeps landing bombshell stories: Illeana Douglas called him the day after his Harvey Weinstein story broke
TOPICS: Les Moonves, CBS, Illeana Douglas, Julie Chen, Ronan Farrow, Sexual Misconduct
More Les Moonves on Primetimer:- Fired former CBS CEO Les Moonves settles dispute with ViacomCBS over his $120 million exit package, will donate the settlement to charity
- Leak of a draft report on Les Moonves likely cost CBS tens of millions of dollars
- Judge Judy facing another lawsuit, this time over the show's library
- Former NBC executive George Cheeks to take over as head of CBS, replacing Les Moonves successor Joe Ianniello
