A Ukrainian mum has spoken of her horror after her son was stabbed on an Edinburgh street just months after the family fled their war torn country.
01.09.2023 - 20:37 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: In a story with a happy ending before the holiday weekend, NBCUniversal has stepped up to help disenfranchised employees heavily impacted by the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.
Non-union crew members, including production assistants, are among the most vulnerable during the work stoppages as they generally don’t have free access to the funds Hollywood guilds have set up to assist struggling members.
Already having to rely largely on unemployment benefits for income, non-union employees on NBCUniversal shows got more alarming news Wednesday that came as a surprise to many: they were notified that their company-subsidized health insurance was being cut off the next day, August 31.
A number of affected employees reached out to Deadline to describe the desperate situation they’d found themselves in, having less than 30 hours to find new coverage or pay quadruple their monthly cost to retain their current insurance. The predicament is particularly difficult for staffers with families, including children, who are on their policies.
One employee claimed that the website to access their insurance info was already locked by the time they received the notification, leaving them no time to set up a new policy before the deadline to continue coverage in September.
Approached by Deadline about the issue, NBCU quickly looked into the matter. According to sources, an outside insurance company, contracted by NBCU for its employee health coverage services, handles the usually automatically generated employee notifications. It is unclear whether people were not given heads-up about the expiration of the bridge health insurance coverage ahead of time or if that was not communicated clearly in the summary of benefits they
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