Q’s former executive producer Arif Noorani will be starting a new job at the CBC when he returns to work next Monday after two weeks off, according to the CBC.

“Given all that's transpired over the last couple of weeks, Arif has asked to be reassigned,” said CBC spokesman Chuck Thompson. “When he returns to work next Monday, he'll be developing a new program for CBC Radio.”

Thompson said he couldn’t get into the specifics regarding the new program, but said Noorani’s title will still be executive producer.

Noorani did not return telephone and email requests for comment.

He decided to take a leave last Monday while the public broadcaster looked “for more clarity” around the allegations of violence and sexual harassment leveled against former host Jian Ghomeshi, said Chuck Thompson.

Thompson said at the time that the leave Noorani chose to take is different from the time off that was offered to all Q staff in light of the allegations against Ghomeshi.

“He made a decision, given all that’s going on, to take some time so we can get some clarity around the situation,” said Thompson.

Last Monday, Noorani told the Star in an email he was “fully cooperating with the CBC’s investigation into this matter and will respect that process as it unfolds.”

The CBC has hired employment lawyer Janice Rubin and her team to conduct a third-party investigation of the allegations against Ghomeshi within the CBC.

Nine women and one man have told the Star and other media that they were choked, hit or sexually harassed by Ghomeshi. Three women, including Trailer Park Boys actress Lucy DeCoutere, have so far come forward to Toronto police, who are investigating.

CBC executive vice-president of English services Heather Conway said in an interview on CBC’s As It Happens last Friday that head of radio Chris Boyce and Thompson viewed evidence, including text messages, photos and videos, on Oct. 23 showing Ghomeshi inflicting physical harm on a woman.

Ghomeshi was fired three days later.

Conway said she has not seen the evidence herself. Through Thompson, she has declined several requests for an interview with the Star.

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Ghomeshi has said he will meet the allegations “directly,” and has maintained in a Facebook post and a $55-million lawsuit against the CBC that all of his sexual encounters have been consensual. He has retained high-profile criminal defence lawyer Marie Henein.

With files from Tim Alamenciak

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