Twenty-five “distraught” former employees at CBS Television City have filed a class-action lawsuit against the facility’s new owner and CBS Broadcast, alleging that they were fire…
Television City have filed a class-action lawsuit against the facility’s new owner and CBS Broadcast, alleging that they were fired after its sale and not offered buyout deals, unlike many of their colleagues.
All of but one of the defendants have worked at CBS for at least 30 years, with most starting in the 1970s or ’80s and two serving there since the ’60s . With a combined 917 years of employment at Television City, the plaintiffs’ jobs ran from technician and camera operator to engineer and HR rep and many others.
The suit adds: “Then the very next day after escrow closed on the sale of Television City to Hackman, on February 1, 2019, CBS offered a lucrative buyout to all of its employees throughout the United States who qualified under its 80 point system; while all of the Plaintiffs herein met the 80 point criteria, none of them were offered the buyout in an unfair and discriminatory decision based on their age but under the guise of CBS’ decision that Plaintiffs would no longer be CBS employees in...
CBS Broadcasting, Television City Studios and Michael Hackman & Associates are among the named defendants in the suit, which seeks unspecified monetary damages “in the tens of millions of dollars” and restitution. Attorney Wayne S. Kreger from the Law Offices of Wayne S. Kreger in Santa Monica is representing the plaintiffs in their class action.
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