ABC/Netflix Production Assistant Overtime Suit Nearing Settlement
A group of parking production assistants (PPA) suing various programmers for failure to pay overtime may be close to reaching settlement. In a letter (in PACER) posted Monday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, counsel for both sides said after…
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a March 13 telephone conference they reached agreement on monetary terms of a settlement and "narrowed the remaining disputed issues substantially," and most if not all issues can be resolved in the next 30 days. The PPAs filed suit in June 2016 against ABC, Marvel Entertainment, Netflix, Walt Disney, Prodco, FTP Productions and Mark Gordon, alleging they weren't properly paid for time beyond 40 hours a week. A similar PPA suit against a variety of other programmers, including CBS, also is apparently nearing settlement (see 1704070006). Parking production assistants are paid to park and hold parking spaces to be used by actors and other film crew employees who arrive later.