Allegations of workplace misconduct within the Phoenix Suns and Mercury extend beyond managing partner Robert Sarver to multiple executives still employed by the teams, including president and chief executive officer Jason Rowley, according to another investigative report from ESPN's Baxter Holmes.
, confirmed through more than 320 interviews and the review of more than 80,000"documents and other materials, including emails, text messages and videos."a week later, issuing a defiant statement in the face of controversy over the volume of misconduct alleged in a report that spanned his ownership since 2004.
Rowley has verbally accosted multiple female employees over his 18-year tenure, according to ESPN. He was allegedly among several male executives who subseqently pushed to terminate one of those female employees while she was on maternity leave. Following pushback from the woman's female supervisor, the Suns waited a month after the new mother returned from maternity leave to fire her in 2014, ESPN reported.
According to Holmes, Costello and Chisholm respectively told the same woman during her pregnancy in 2014,"You and your husband need to have a discussion about who's going to take care of your kids, because you can't work here and do both," and then,"While we want to support you personally, we can't do it professionally." The woman was reportedly demoted thereafter and later left the organization.
"The plain truth is, we should have been disciplined and diligent in the reporting and remediation process," the Suns organization said in a recent statement to ESPN."And our organization should have had in place more effective structural safeguards to respond to allegations such as the one raised in December 2019.The sponsor's rep remains in his position, occasionally working alongside his victim, according to Holmes.
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