Report: Sony Music Knew Of Australia Workplace Abuse Allegations For Decades

— Sony Music’s corporate team in the U.S. received multiple complaints on Handlin from Sony Australia in the Nineties. Greg Lockhart, Sony Australia’s head of human resources at the time, worked closely with Handlin and for years and played a role in cleaning up following Handlin’s alleged abuses. He told Four Corners he’d reported Handlin multiple times throughout the 1990s, but the company didn’t take any action until 1998.

Handlin was initially suspended, and Sony flew 10 Australian executives to its New York corporate office for interviews as part of the company’s internal investigation. But three months later, Sony reinstated Handlin, and his power went untouched for another 23 years. Nine of the 10 executives who were interviewed would leave the company over the next several years, according to the report.

The company has underwent multiple top executive shifts since the initial investigation in the Nineties, and Sony says its current leadership hadn’t received any complaints on the matter until this year. “We take all allegations of bullying, harassment and other inappropriate behavior from our employees very seriously and investigate them vigorously,” Sony Music Entertainment said in a statement. “Only recently did claims surface and we are examining them expeditiously.

At the center of the reporting behind Australia’s ongoing reckoning is advocacy group Beneath the Glass Ceiling. For over a year, the group has served as an anonymous community where victims in the Australian music industry could freely tell their stories of sexual harassment and abusive workplace environments, and the group helped connect those who were interested with journalists, lawyers, support groups and other resources.

While the Australian music industry has held active investigations into workplace violations, the music industry overall has mostly avoided the reckoning the broader entertainment has faced in regard to longstanding issues of workplace abuse and sexual misconduct. But advocates are looking to shift that. In the U.S.

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