JWT Communications Exec Files Suit Against JWT and Its CEO for Racist, Sexist Comments
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An agency is once again being charged with racist and misogynistic behavior — and this time it’s JWT.
A discrimination suit has been filed in Manhattan federal court against the WPP agency and its worldwide Chairman-CEO Gustavo Martinez by JWT’s longtime communications executive Erin Johnson, claiming the executive made “racist and sexist slurs.”
“As Chief Communications Officer, Johnson reports directly to the Worldwide Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (‘CEO’) and oversees global corporate communications for JWT, including both external and internal communications,” the suit said. “Her career progressed without impediment until 2015, when JWT appointed Martinez as its Chair and CEO.” The suit goes on to say that Ms. Johnson had difficulty maintaining her duties, particularly promoting the company. Promoting it “internally and externally in a positive light has become virtually impossible given Martinez’s apparent comfort in making constant racist and sexist slurs, even on tape.”
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