Coronavirus Crunch Hits Agencies: Paradigm’s Sam Gores Institutes Widespread ‘Temporary Layoffs’

By Dominic Patten, Mike Fleming Jr

Two weeks after implementing layoffs and paycuts in a companywide call and five days after former Paradigm agent Debbee Klein filed a $2 million wrongful termination suit against the agency, chairman and CEO Sam Gores has addressed his employees again.

Two weeks after implementing layoffs and paycuts in a companywide call and five days after former Paradigm agent Debbee Klein filed a $2 million wrongful termination suit against the agency, chairman and CEO Sam Gores has addressed his employees again.In a letter sent agency-wide on Monday night, Gores did not directly mention the pending litigation, which accused him of leaving the laid-off staff high and dry in economically strained times, but unveiled a number of measures that seemed to

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With the state of California in a “safe at home” lockdown and the entertainment industry struggling with the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, sources tell Variety that temporary layoffs are expected to hit Paradigm. Sources say individuals have not been informed of who will be placed on furlough, and what departments will be hit.

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