In 2021, Peter Dunn, the president of CBS television stations, and David Friend, the senior vice president of news for TV stations, were fired by the network for making racist and sexist comments to and about Black and female employees.
Now Dunn has filed a motion in a New York court confirming that an Abritrator has awarded him $7 million from a lawsuit he filed against th network in 2022.
According to an LA Times report in 2021, Dunn was accused of frequently denigrating a Black news anchor at KYW, the CBS station in Philadelphia, calling him “just a jive guy” and that at least four current and former female CBS executives said they had been bullied by Mr. Dunn between 2017 and 2019.
But the motion Dunn filed this week says an Arbitrator found CBS guilty of breach of contract.
Friend was cleared of all accusations in 2022.
According to the motion, the Arbitrator wrote: CBS breached Section 7 of the Employment Agreement as a matter of New York law on October 1, 2021, when it purported to “convert” Mr. Dunn’s prior termination to “for Cause”, and thereafter ceased all severance payments and
disclaimed all accrued obligations to Mr. Dunn. While the Arbitrator
specifically determined in the February 26, 2024 Decision and Order
that CBS’s purported conversion on October 1, 2021, was
“ineffectual”, the inescapable upshot of that determination was that
CBS breached the Employment Agreement. The Arbitrator so
concludes, and so clarifies the February 26, 2024 Decision and Order.”
