#TMJ4 METEOROLOGIST DIES SERIES#

He is the president o f Steele Media Group. WTMJ had been owned by Journal Communications, which was sold to Scripps in 2015. Steele worked for WTMJ from 2007 to 2017.

A manager once circulated a memo about the importance of 'CHRISTIAN holy week' but there was never a similar memo about any other religion.

Once after asking for time off for the holidays, he was removed from a 'prominent position with demonstrated rating success to a lesser role.' At the time Steele said he was told 'we need to appeal to more than just a few people,' a comment that Steele took as a 'reference to his Jewish identity.'.'It was a constant struggle for Steele and other Jewish employees to take time off for Jewish holidays.'.In addition to twice finding a cross on his desk, the weatherman once found a Jewish head-covering known as a yarmulke on his desk.The determination gave Steele a green light to file a federal lawsuit. In an April determination letter, EEOC District Director Juliane Bowman said she found 'reasonable cause' to believe that Scripps retaliated against Steele when it 'harassed, disciplined and forced him to resign his employment due to his opposition to discriminatory practices.' 'They will say and do anything to paint Steele in a false light in order to distract from, and cover up, their wrongdoing.'Īmong other things, the falsified version of the memo eliminated Steele's complaint of retaliation and also removed the name of Joe Poss, the station general manager from the signature line, the suit states. 'The falsified memorandum is a damning example of a basic truth about Scripps,' the suit states. Prior to the (meeting), Steele’s employment file reflected only positive and appropriate job reviews and performance.'ĭuring those proceedings Scripps filed a falsified document with the agency, Kravit charged in the suit. 'Scripps then manufactured false workplace 'incidents' against Steele, disciplined him for the imagined incidents, and ultimately wrongfully terminated his employment by the end of summer 2017. 'Scripps began a campaign of retaliation against Steele for speaking up to protest the anti-Semitic discrimination workplace hostility he was suffering, and his criticism of the culture of discrimination at WTMJ 4,' the 22-page complaint charges. The suit charges that things came to a head at a 2017 staff meeting called after management received an anonymous complaint and a staff survey where the issues of anti-Semitism and discrimination were raised.

#TMJ4 METEOROLOGIST DIES SERIES#

District Court in Milwaukee, outlines a series of incidents - including claims that a Christian cross was twice left on Steele's desk.

Scott Steele and two other Jewish former employees of WTMJ-TV were harassed and discriminated against because of their religion, Steele charged in a federal lawsuit against Scripps Media Inc., the Cincinnati-based owner of the station.

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