G/O Media just fired a Black travel writer for leaving the country - Business Insider

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G/O Media just fired a Black Muslim travel writer for leaving the country. The reporter has worked abroad for years and has written that she left to protect her son from police violence.

, and was living in China a few weeks before joining G/O Media. Bashir was working from Mexico when G/O Media fired her, according to the union statement.

The union also said Bashir's lifestyle of moving to different countries "was celebrated when she was offered the job, and it was communicated to her that this offered value to her role." Bashir told Business Insider that she is a US citizen, has a US bank account, and has a permanent residence in the US. She said she told G/O Media this information upon her hiring.in May, Bashir wrote that she and her family were living at the time in a Florida Airbnb and were waiting for international borders to open, "because we don't actually have a residence in the United States anymore.

It's unclear what the G/O policy is for working abroad or if it's set up to have employees working remotely in Mexico. The union said Bashir had communicated all of her travels to G/O Media since she joined as an employee and that G/O's Human Resources was "incapable of honoring its commitment to employ her as an internationally based staff writer."

The union statement said G/O Media fired Bashir via email without severance or an offer of extended health insurance.

 

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