News boss allegedly told employee 'have sex to break the ice'

An ex-CBS News employee claims that her boss advised her to “have sex” with a colleague to handle their workplace dispute.

The New York post reports that the allegation came from Erin Gee, who worked at the network for 17 years. She alleges that CBS Evening News boss, Robert Klug, told her that she “should ‘have sex’ with [the] video editor who had been difficult to work with to ‘break the ice’,” according to court documents.

“I couldn’t believe that was his advice. I was looking for help, and he looked at me like, ‘You don’t matter, and this is what you should do to make this guy like you,'” said Gee.

She said that she reported the incident to a senior producer on the program, “who told her at the time that he let the executive producer know about it,’’ her lawyer, Kevin Mintzer said. “But nothing was done.’’