Veteran producer Trey Sherman of CBS News has accused the network of conducting layoffs based on race—after his roles were eliminated in a sweeping cost-cutting move. According to Sherman, every producer on his team who was laid off was a person of color, while white colleagues were not only spared but were being reassigned within the company.

Sherman, who worked as an associate producer for the streaming show CBS Evening News+ and in CBS’s Race & Culture Unit, announced the news on TikTok Wednesday. He described how his position—and the positions of his colleagues of color—were eliminated amid the network’s first round of major cuts that affect about 1,000 employees.

In his video, Sherman said:

“I just got laid off from my job at CBS, and every producer on my team who got laid off is a person of color. Every person who gets to stay and will be relocated within the company is a White person.”

He also accused an unnamed executive of lying about trying to find him another role: “I went one by one to my White colleagues. ‘Are you getting laid off?’ ‘No.’ … ‘Are you getting laid off? No.’ … ‘Are you getting laid off? No.’ So, I went back up to his office, and I told him I think he lied to my face.”

This mass layoff surge comes in the wake of the merger between Skydance Media and Paramount Global, the parent company of CBS, which has triggered a strategy shift and cost-cutting measures. In an internal email to staff, Paramount (and by extension CBS) CEO David Ellison confirmed the layoff wave:

“Today we begin the difficult process of informing impacted team members across the company… These decisions are never made lightly, especially given their effect on our colleagues who have made meaningful contributions to the company.”

While the network hasn’t publicly responded to Sherman’s specific allegations, the scale of the cuts is large, with reports suggesting up to another 1,000 roles may be eliminated in a future wave.

Sherman’s remarks don’t pull punches:

“I don’t care if you decided to keep people who have purple color hair … You decided to keep people who you had worked with before … if the outcome of that decision is racist, the action was racist. That sht is fcked.”