(Courtesy Boulevard Brewing / Facebook)

On January 25 A former employee at Boulevard Brewing took to reddit to post that she had left the brewery because of harassment she received when she was pregnant.

But unfortunately that claim was just the beginning of what she describes as “a sexist work environment,” accusations that Boulevard Brewing was quick to counter while acknowledging that the organization could have been more sensitive…

But Boulevard’s response was widely criticized as tone-deaf and not really addressing the depth of the issues at the Kansas City, MO-based brewery.

And on January 26^th Boulevard posted what can only be seen as a formal apology from the brewery and announced that it had fired a key executive and is taking extensive actions to address the growing allegations to make for a more inclusive workplace…

Because this issue is so important, we have republished Boulevard’s response in full…

REFLECTING

We are sorry.

In the last few days, we have heard from our employees, our former employees, and our community. We have learned a lot about ourselves.

We have heard accounts of personal experiences that have shaken us to our core. It has become undeniably clear that harassment did in fact occur, clear that we have issues – serious issues that we have failed to address.

To those of you that we hurt, those we let down, those we failed to protect, we are deeply sorry.

Words won’t change anything, or fix anything, only actions. So starting today, we are taking the first steps.

Based on additional, corroborated information, we parted ways with a company executive.

We are hiring an independent third party human resources firm to undertake an independent investigation of all issues that have been raised, with full access to all our people and all our records. We will share the results with our teams, and will take all recommended actions.

We are instituting new procedures to enable anonymous reporting of workplace concerns, and reexamining our policies to ensure that all issues are handled in a thorough, independent, and fair manner. [/box]