Jill Goldsmith Co-Business EditorViacomCBS Thursday acknowledged that the company had conducted a review of a complaint by a former employee against CEO Bob Bakish but found no ground to support it.“The Board takes any allegation of this type seriously.
An independent review of the alleged incident has concluded, and the investigation did not support the allegation,” ViacomCBS said in a statment.Website The Information first reported that the review centered on a complaint made this year by an employee of Viacom’s Nickelodeon cable channel.
The employee claimed Bakish touched her inappropriately at Viacom’s holiday party in 2016, when he was acting CEO. Bakish became CEO of Viacom in 2017 and was named chief of the combined company when.
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