Eish, we know the film industry is hard work and many who dwell in Cape Town make a stunner of a living on the seasonal work that washed onto our shores, but this, this is heavy and not that all surprising as some film people can be arrogant dicks. Let’s just be honest.

So over in the US, four New York-based production assistants are taking companies including Paramount, Nickelodeon and Regency to court after they forced the PA’s to “take desperate measures while working on films like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Wolf of Wall Street, and Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon.

These desperate measures? They were forced to go to the bathroom inside their cars thank to their strict job requirements among other issues:

Due to limitations on their ability to leave their assigned locations, many of the Plaintiffs are forced to urinate and defecate into bottles and buckets in their vehicles.The PPAs [production assistants], who worked on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies and Wolf of Wall Street, also allege that the companies named in the suit regularly required them to work between 60 and 100 hours per week with no overtime pay.Instead, they were paid a flat rate of $150 a day on average for a 12-hour day. The suit also states that the PPAs were not provided compensation for food, nor given access to food on set, despite others being given dinner on set.In addition, while working in cold weather conditions, the PPAs claim they were forced to run their cars continuously in order to stay warm, but were not compensated for this either.

And their job? “To keep location shoots clear of pedestrians and cars.”

Eish.

[source: gawker]