Apparently, love is blind to a healthy work environment. That is what is alleged in a new collective claim filed this week.
Stephen Richardson, a contestant of season 7 of the Netflix “Love Is Blind” dating program, is demanding at the transmission service and the production companies behind the series, claiming that they could not pay extra hours and minimum wages and did not provide precise and detailed salary statements and periods of disinterruid food. Class action was presented on Monday at the Los Angeles County Superior Court.
Richardson alleges in the demand that producers erroneously classified him and the rest of the cast, who, according to him, regularly worked 20 hours, to pay them less. The demand lists kinetic content, Delirium TV and Netflix as accused.
Producers exercised “domination over [participants’] The time, the schedule and its ability to eat, drink and sleep, and communicate with the outside world during the employment period “and further restrict the actions of the participants after the show wraps, according to the complaint. The conditions were” insecure and inhuman, “says the demand.
“Love Is Blind” follows a group of single men and women looking for love in the old form, blindly communicating through a wall. Couples remain with each other until they establish a commitment, which is worth it with unexpected facial reactions that express emotions, including great dissatisfaction, confusion or a sigh of relief.
In recent years, the program has been beaten with similar demands from other former cast members. Last year, season 5, Renee Poche, and the veteran of season 2, Nick Thompson, filed a lawsuit against production companies after she was penalized for violating her contract by publicly discussing her experience in the program.
“Now I am being sued for $ 4 million despite winning $ 8,000 for my participation in the program,” Poche to USA Today.
Poche claimed that production companies were taking reprisals against her for talking about the working conditions she suffered. After feeling “like a prisoner” while working on the program, he says he was cut from the final version of the series.
The distribution member of Season 2, Jeremy Hartwell, sued the kinetic content and Netflix in 2022 for allegedly violating labor laws and creating a “insecure and inhuman” work environment. Then, several unidentified cast members spoke with Insider in April 2023, claiming that the producers submitted them to production days of 20 hours, rarely allowed them to leave, could not provide adequate services of food and mental health and ignored their help of help.
Over the years, the reality shows have tried to protect themselves from real -life lawyers with agreements and provisions that require disputes for arbitration. The new complaint has Richardson as the defendant appointed along with “all the others located similarly.”
The accuser is looking for unspecified damage. Richardson, Netflix, Kinetic Content and Delirium TV did not immediately respond on Wednesday to the request for comments of the Times.
