Labor/Employment,
Entertainment & Sports
Dec. 12, 2023
17 suits say SAG’s COVID policy not in interest of members
Actors lost jobs, offers, agents and auditions due to not wanting to be vaccinated, and accuse the Screen Actors Guild of breaching its duty to act in the best interest of its members.
A batch of new lawsuits against the Screen Actors Guild claims that the organization discriminated against some of its members by instituting a vaccine requirement to work in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 18 individual complaints filed on Friday in Los Angeles claim that the guild breached its contractual duty to serve the interests of its members who did not want to receive the vaccine as part of a “return to work agreement” — r...