Bankrupt left-wing media company Vice Media continued to pay its diversity chiefs six-figure compensation as the company headed toward bankruptcy, according to court filings Monday.
Deputy Chief Human Resources Officer Daisy Auger Dominguez received $748,583 in compensation for the year before the media filed for bankruptcy in May 2022. Deputy disclosed her salary in a document. financial statement to New York bankruptcy court.
Today, VICE was unable to obtain court records that cost 10 cents because the company has not paid its bills.
Meanwhile, a great many executives, including those who led VICE to bankruptcy, earned between $700,000 and $900,000, including bonuses when VICE laid off far cheaper workers.it’s worse than i thought pic.twitter.com/7vr7iRiPIb
— Joseph Cox (@josephfcox) July 11, 2023
Auger Dominguez explain yourself In his Vice role, he was an executive overseeing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) and Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG). She has authored a book on racial equality in the workplace and has given her TED talks on inclusion. (Related article: ‘The Young Turks’ star admits he would have done the same with Kyle Rittenhouse)
Vice allegedly paid six-figure salaries to several executives stiffen the freelancer And I couldn’t pay the bill because the store went bankrupt.
Vice paid $726,068 to chief digital officer Corey Huike and $551,909 to chief content officer Danny Gabbai in the year before the store went bankrupt, according to court filings. . Chief Operating Officer Hoshi Simon received a salary of $328,125 and CEO Josefa Lokandwala received a salary of $836,988.
Performance bonuses to executives totaled more than $1 million, according to court filings. At the same time, Vice will not be able to pay severance pay this month. According to the semaphore.
Vice Media declared bankruptcy on May 15 after years of financial trouble and management turmoil. The outlet was then bought by a group of investors led by liberal billionaire George Soros.
