Condé Nast Fires Four Employees After Incident With HR Executive Over Teen Vogue Consolidation; Guild Calls Terminations “Illegal”

Famous writers at New Yorker are up in arms after fact checker’s firing

This was supposed to be a season for celebration at the New Yorker. A year’s worth of 100th-anniversary festivities for the crown jewel of Condé Nast’s media empire is set to culminate on Dec. 5 with the release of a Netflix documentary, “The New Yorker at 100,” meant to offer a glimpse behind the scenes for the reading public — and a moment of pride for the people who work for a standard-bearer of magazine journalism. Instead, the abrupt firing…

Condé Nast Fires Four Employees After Incident With HR Executive Over Teen Vogue Consolidation; Guild Calls Terminations “Illegal”

The News Guild of New York called the terminations "illegal."

Watch the Condé Nast Staffers-HR Confrontation That Led to 4 Firings

Condé Nast editorial staff confronted the company’s head of HR over layoffs and followed him down a hallway while he directed them to go back to work but did not appear to exhibit “extreme misconduct” as claimed by the company, according to video obtained exclusively by TheWrap. TheWrap obtained two clips of the Wednesday afternoon episode in the hallway outside Condé Nast chief people officer Stan Duncan’s 34th-floor office at Manhattan’s 1 Wor…

Union blasts Condé Nast for ‘illegal firing’ of staffers for Teen Vogue confrontation

‘Extreme misconduct is unacceptable in any professional setting. This includes aggressive, disruptive, and threatening behavior of any kind,’ Condé Nast said in a statement.

Report: Layoffs at Teen Vogue As Online Magazine Gets Rolled Into Vogue's Website

"Nearly all of these staffers identify as LGBTQ. As of today, only one woman of color remains on the editorial staff at Teen Vogue. Condé leadership owes us answers — and Teen Vogue’s readership. We will get those answers."

Condé Nast Accused of ‘Illegal Firings’ of Union Employees Who ‘Demanded Answers’ About Layoffs, Teen Vogue Shutdown; Company Says Staffers Violated Policies

The already tense relations between Condé Nast and the union representing many of its editorial workers hit a new flash point this week.