“Defendants failed and continue to fail to compensate Class Members and Aggrieved Employees for all hours worked, including minimum wage and overtime hours, as a result of maintaining a practice of requiring Class Members and Aggrieved Employees to work up to twenty (20) hour days, seven days per week, while paying them a flat amount of $1,000.00 per filming week,” the docs state. This amount is allegedly less than minimum wage for the number of hours worked. It is also alleged in the suit that “Love Is Blind” Season 2 participants earned $1,000 per week, up to $8,000, for the duration of filming. “The exploitative working conditions served to control the participants’ conduct and elicited irrational behavior for entertainment value in the final project.” “Love Is Blind” Season 2 premiered earlier this year on the streaming platform. “At times, defendants left members of the cast alone for hours at a time with no access to a phone, food, or any other type of contact with the outside world until they were required to return to working on the production,” the docs read. Hartwell further claimed in court docs that contestants were unable to contact loved ones during filming - even though that is commonplace for many reality competition series. The Chicago native further claimed that “hydrating drinks such as water were strictly limited to the cast during the day.”Īdditionally, the docs allege that “Love Is Blind” contributed to “inhumane working conditions and altered mental state for the cast” through a “combination of sleep deprivation, isolation, lack of food and an excess of alcohol all either required, enabled or encouraged” by the production. In court documents obtained by Page Six, Hartwell, 36, alleged that “the only drinks that regularly provided to the cast were alcoholic beverages, soft drinks, energy drinks and mixers.” SER BAFFO/NETFLIXĪccording to Hartwell’s legal team, his lawsuit serves as “a proposed class action on behalf of all participants in ‘Love Is Blind’ and other non-scripted productions” created by Kinetic Content from 2018 to 2022. “The contracts required contestants to agree that if they left the show before filming was done, they would be penalized by being required to pay $50,000 in ‘liquidated damages.’ With that being 50 times what some of the cast members would earn during the entire time that they worked, this certainly had the potential to instill fear in the cast and enable production to exert even further control.” “Love Is Blind” Season 2 alum Jeremy Hartwell is taking legal action against the Netflix reality series. This made cast members hungry for social connections and altered their emotions and decision-making,” Hartwell’s attorney, Chantal Payton of Payton Employment Law, PC, of Los Angeles, alleged Wednesday in a statement provided to Page Six. “They intentionally underpaid the cast members, deprived them of food, water and sleep, plied them with booze and cut off their access to personal contacts and most of the outside world. “Love Is Blind” Season 2 star Jeremy Hartwell filed a lawsuit against Netflix and the series’ producers, alleging that the cast was mistreated while filming the show. ‘Love Is Blind’s Lauren Speed, Cameron Hamilton may replace Nick, Vanessa Lachey
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