Paramount Production Assistants Forced to Urinate and Defecate Into Bottles and Buckets in Their Vehicles.
In the United States, 4 New York based production assistants are taking companies including Paramount, Regency and Nickelodeon to court after they forced the Production Assistants to go to the bathroom inside their cars due to their strict low paying job among other issues while working on films like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Wolf of Wall Street, and Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon.
“Due to limitations on their ability to leave their assigned locations, many of the Plaintiffs are forced to urinate and defecate into bottles and buckets in their vehicles,” court documents obtained by TheWrap state. The PPAs, who worked on the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” movies and “Wolf of Wall Street,” also allege that the companies named in the suit regularly required them to work between 60 and 100 hours per week with no overtime pay.ClickSucka: "There is something seriously wrong with a system that pays a person $25,000,000.00+ and gets additional perks, points, etc while other people putting in time to help this endeavor have to defecate in their cars during a 12+ hour shift for a measly $150"
Instead, they were paid a flat rate of $150 a day on average for a 12-hour day. The suit also states that the PPAs were not provided compensation for food, nor given access to food on set, despite others being given dinner on set.
In addition, while working in cold weather conditions, the PPAs claim they were forced to run their cars continuously in order to stay warm, but were not compensated for this either.
The plaintiffs are demanding back pay and damages for lost compensation and benefits they claim that Paramount and other defendants owe them for their time spent on the sets.
Paramount did not immediately respond.
Source [ TheWrap ]
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