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Thursday, April 17, 2014

Vegas Magician Stagehands Suing Over Wage Dispute

Pollstar: A Feb. 15 federal wage-abuse lawsuit filed by seven stagehands alleges that over the past three years the veteran Las Vegas illusionist sometimes made them work 14 hours a day and seven days a week without paying overtime.
A Jan. 3 state court lawsuit lodged by Copperfield business entities Backstage Employment and Referral Inc., David Copperfield’s Disappearing Inc. and Imagine Nation Company Inc. accuses six stagehands of breach of contract, conspiracy and disclosure of trade secrets.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

This is crazy. Why are there so many worker lawsuits recently? Were people just nicer way back when? Or did less people have the courage to speak out against mistreatment? And what are these contract agreements that they are getting themselves into? Shouldn't they have thought to put in a clause to protect themselves from these kinds of things? It is really silly how many times cases come up like this about worker mistreatment/ not getting paid for their work. Company secrecy is completely different from declaring a lawsuit to get paid for keeping the secret. These kind of problems shouldn't be coming up at all if there were still decent human beings in the world. I guess this means there aren't any.