More Legal Troubles At Fox News

(RTTNews) - Fox News is facing new allegations of racial discrimination just less than a week after the ouster of the network's star Bill O'Reilly.

Reportedly, 11 current and former employees, including a black anchor and reporter, filed a class action suit against the network alleging "abhorrent, intolerable, unlawful and hostile racial discrimination."

According to New York Times, the lawsuit was filed in State Supreme Court in the Bronx and it expands a complaint filed at the end of March by Tichaona Brown and Tabrese Wright, two black women who worked in the Fox News payroll department.

The suit alleges that Fox News Coptroller Judith Slater made racist remarks, while senior executives ignored her actions. Fox News had fired Slater in February.

"When it comes to racial discrimination, 21st Century Fox has been operating as if it should be called 18th Century Fox," the plaintiffs' lawyers, Douglas H. Wigdor and Jeanne M. Christensen, said in a statement, referring to Fox News's parent company. "We sincerely hope the filing of this race class action wakes 21st Century Fox from its slumbers and inspires the company to take a conciliatory and appropriate approach to remedy its wrongs."