Congress will hear from former Washington Football Team employees in a roundtable next week as part of its ongoing probe into the team’s allegedly toxic workplace culture and the NFL’s handling of an investigation into the organization’s work environment.

The roundtable, “Examining the Washington Football Team’s Toxic Workplace Culture,” is scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 3 — one day after the team is scheduled to announce its new name.

“For more than twenty years, employees of the Washington Football Team were subjected to sexual harassment, verbal abuse, and other misconduct,” said Rep. Carolyn Maloney, who chairs the House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Reform, in a press release Thursday. “It is becoming increasingly clear that not only did the team fail to protect employees, but the NFL went to great lengths to prevent the truth about this toxic work environment from coming to light.”

The list of witnesses for next week’s hearing includes five former team employees, with additional witnesses to be announced, according to the House committee. A spokesperson for the WFT did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the roundtable.

The team has been embroiled in multiple controversies — including its former president’s inclusion on racist, misogynistic, and homophobic emails, a DEA search of a team facility in connection to an investigation into the team’s head athletic trainer, and an ongoing inquiry into issues of sexual harassment and verbal abuse at the club.

In July of 2020, 15 women who worked for the franchise came forward in a Washington Post investigation and said they were sexually harassed during their time at the club. They described an environment where sexual harassment and verbal abuse “was ignored — and in some cases, condoned — by top team executives,” according to the Post.

In response to the Post investigation, the team hired attorney Beth Wilkinson to look into the team’s workplace culture. The NFL later took over the investigation. The league also fined the team $10 million, and Tanya Snyder took over day-to-day operations of the team from her husband, Dan Snyder.

“I feel great remorse for the people who had difficult, even traumatic, experiences while working here. I’m truly sorry for that. I can’t turn back the clock, but I promise that nobody who works here will ever have that kind of experience again, at least not as long as Tanya and I are the owners of this team,” wrote Dan Snyder in a statement after the fine was announced.

But former employees of the team have said the fine was too small, and have been pressing the league to publicly release the findings of Wilkinson’s investigation — which included interviews with more than 150 people and a review of 650,000 internal emails.

“We have every reason to believe that Wilkinson and her team did an exhaustive, competent investigation, and that she had every intention of issuing a written report of her findings,” 10 former team employees said in a letter to a group of WFT sponsors. (The letter was obtained and reported by The Athletic in October.) The former employees said that they “know personally that those findings included acts of harassment committed by [WFT owner Dan] Snyder himself, including but not limited to those reported by The Washington Post.”

Members of Congress have also raised concerns about the team’s culture and the quality of the NFL’s investigation. In October, Congress’ Committee on Oversight and Reform announced it had launched an investigation into the matter, and House Democrats on the committee requested documents, policies, and information related to the league’s investigation of the team.

“We have serious concerns about what appears to be widespread abusive workplace

conduct at the WFT and about the NFL’s handling of this matter,” wrote Reps. Maloney and Raja Krishnamoorthi of the Committee on Oversight and Reform in an October letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, adding that “communications between league management and WFT leadership also raise questions about the league’s asserted impartiality in these investigations.”

Members of Congress have said next week’s roundtable will allow them to hear first-hand from former WFT employees and use those accounts to inform potential legislative solutions to workplace harassment and discrimination.

“The NFL has one of the most prominent platforms in America and the lack of transparency about its handling of decades-long allegations of harassment and discrimination within one of its teams sets a dangerous precent for other workplaces,” wrote the House Committee on Oversight and Reform in its press release announcing the event. “To ensure real accountability, the NFL must end its cover-up, honor its commitment to cooperate with Congress, and release Wilkinson’s investigative findings.”