Television executives Dave Davis and Camille Edwards are no longer manning WABC/Channel 7 while two discrimination lawsuits from employees are being investigated.
Laura Behnke, a sports reporter with WABC, filed a lawsuit against the network bosses claiming that she wasn’t promoted to the main sports reporter position because she is a white woman.
Behnke, who filed the suit last fall, ended her time with WABC after her contract expired.
Television executives Camille Edwards and Dave Davis are no longer manning WABC/Channel 7 while two discrimination lawsuits from employees are being investigated
Behnke said she had been fulfilling the responsibilities when her agent told her that Edwards allegedly shared that she was ‘doing a good job’ and the decision would ‘be made soon,’Page Six reports.
She also adds that when the station was initially looking for a replacement, they would hire inside the company, instead giving it to a different employee.
An additional employee, Matthew Lamattina, filed a different discrimination lawsuit against Edwards last October.
Laura Behnke, a sports reporter with WABC, filed a lawsuit against the network bosses claiming that she wasn’t promoted to the main sports reporter position because she is a white woman
He claimed that he would be repeatedly reprimanded for missing work related to health issues for him and his family.
Included was a time when he had to rush to help his daughter, for a face injury, where he was then told that he was ‘taking advantage of the sick time’ by Edwards.
An second employee, Matthew Lamattina, filed a different discrimination lawsuit against Edwards in October
In response to the two allegations, WABC announced in a news release sent out on Thursday that Davis would be retiring.
The WABC president explained in a staff memo that he wouldn’t be working another day.
‘Having decided this, I think it best to move on quickly,’ Davis explained. ‘No time like the present. Leaving a place and people you care for is always difficult, but this is the right time.’
According to an anonymous source: ‘This is something he has been speaking to management about for some time.’
In December, Edwards took a leave of absence to deal with family matters, Page Six reports.
A different source told them on Friday that she was ‘banned’ from the office and not allowed to return.
Another source, however, denied that claim and said Edwards extended her leave but was not banned.
WABC announced that Davis would be retiring in a news release sent out on Thursday.