Advertising Age reports that lawyers for JWT Chief Communications Officer Erin Johnson "say they have an email exchange documenting their client's attempts to alert the agency to complaints
about Chairman-CEO Gustavo Martinez". Johnson filed a discrimination lawsuit last week against the WPP agency and its chief executive, claiming among other things that Mr. Martinez made numerous
"racist and sexist slurs." The 28-page lawsuit claims that despite Ms. Johnson alerting other people to the issues and having tape of at least one incident, nothing was done by the agency. "Lawyers
for Ms. Johnson say they have an email exchange from Ms. Johnson to the agency's chief talent officer, Laura Agostini, in which Ms. Johnson follows up on a request to get Mr. Martinez sensitivity
training, showing that she had alerted other officers to the issue,
" AdAge reported. JWT said it was reviewing the situation and would comment in due course.
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