A search for WWE’s “Code of Business Conduct” brings viewers to a page with the text ‘not found’, Forbes reported.
FILE – WWE Chairman and CEO Vince McMahon addresses an audience during a WWE fan appreciation event, Oct. 30, 2010, in Hartford, Connecticut. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)
The WWE made no comment to the newspaper regarding the apparent lack of policy.
The revelation comes at a turbulent time for the WWE, as past lawsuits and investigations have resurfaced due to the release of the Netflix special. Mr. McMahon. The Ring Boys court case of October 23 was a continuation of the 1992 Ring Boys scandal that the FBI investigated but never moved forward.
So does former WWE employee Janel Grant indicted McMahon and the company on January 25, 2024, for physical and emotional abuse, as well as sexual assault and human trafficking in the spring of 2019. Her legal spokeswoman, Kendra Barkoff Lamy, had fiery comments about the WWE’s apparent lack of protective policies.
“WWE has been sued numerous times for failing to protect employees from sexual misconduct by executives and a toxic workplace culture, including by Janel Grant, who endured years of sexual abuse at the hands of founder and former WWE CEO Vince McMahon, WWE executive John Laurinaitis, and the WWE organization,” Lamy said.
“It is outrageous that WWE claims to have improved their work environment, yet they have no visible sexual harassment or workplace conduct policy on their website,” she added. “This means that WWE employees have no benchmark for appropriate behavior and no visible guidelines for reporting abuse. This is yet another example of WWE’s carelessness and failure to protect their employees, and we can only hope that no one is harmed by this dangerous oversight. WWE employees deserve better.”
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In June 2023, the company added a consensual relationship policy that stated: “An employee may not exercise any responsibility (instructional, evaluative, or supervisory) for any affiliated person with whom the employee has or had a consensual relationship.”
The policy added: “WWE strongly discourages consensual relationships involving any WWE board member or executive team member, such as the CEO, President, CFO, Chief Content Officer, Chief Legal Officer or Chief Human Resources Officer.”