Jeff Michael, a veteran local news anchor in Los Angeles, filed a lawsuit on Friday alleging that KCBS-TV breached his agreement and discriminated against him based on his heart and stress issues. …
In a statement, KCBS said the staff cuts were caused by the pandemic and by “the ongoing and transformative changes in the media industry.”
Michael joined the station in 2017 after 19 years at the local Fox affiliate, and was anchoring the evening newscasts. The contract states that if Michael were reassigned from the morning to the evening newscasts, he would be entitled to renegotiation. According to the suit, Michael was moved to the evening in October 2018, but the station never got around to renegotiating.
The general manager, Steve Mauldin, then announced that he would be leaving the station, and would not have the authority to negotiate a new deal. Michael alleges that the stress of waiting for a new contract was so severe that his news director had to take him to Huntington Hospital in April 2019 because he thought he was having a heart attack. He went to the emergency room and stayed there overnight.
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