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CBS Settles With White ‘SEAL Team’ Staffer Who Claimed Discrimination
CBS has settled a suit with Brian Beneker, who claimed that he was passed over for a writing job due to the company's diversity goals.
CBS has settled a discrimination lawsuit filed by Brian Beneker, a script coordinator who claimed he had been passed over for a writing job on “ SEAL Team ” because he is a straight white man. Beneker alleged that CBS’ diversity hiring goals — which, at the time, included reaching 50% representation for Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) writers by 2022-23 — amounted to an illegal quota. Paramount Global — the parent company of CBS — recently rolled back its diversity, equity and inclusion policies, saying in a memo that it would no longer “set or use aspirational numerical goals related to the race, ethnicity, sex or gender of hires.”
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