IATSE and a major local media union brought the 2018 legal action against Cineflix Media to secure better pay and working conditions for freelance factual reality TV workers.
producer Cineflix Media has settled a 2018 class-action lawsuit over claims freelancing Canadian factual and reality TV workers were denied proper pay, job security and benefits.
On Monday, IATSE and CWA Canada, a major media union, said they and law firm Cavaluzzo LLP had settled the lawsuit for $2.5 million after three years of negotiations. The suit was brought by Cavaluzzo LLP on behalf of hundreds of current and former workers hired by Cineflix Media and over claims they had been denied overtime and vacation pay and holiday premiums.
Toronto-based TV production worker Anna Bourque, who was named as the sole plaintiff in the lawsuit and worked on the sixth season ofin 2018 that Canadian workers on local film and scripted TV productions are covered by union agreements with IATSE, NABET and other guilds.
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