Netflix has stepped up with a pledge to support displaced creatives
120,000 crew members jobs—. In a blog post on Friday, Netflix CEOthat the company had set aside $100 million to help hourly workers whose jobs have been impacted.
As Sarandos noted, Netflix had set aside $15 million to spread out to “third parties and non-profits providing emergency relief to out-of-work crew and cast in the countries where we have a large production base.” In the U.S., Sarandos added, Netflix planned to donate $1 million each to SAG-AFTRA, the Motion Picture and Television Fund, and the Actors Fund Emergency Assistance.
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