Film workers represented by a breakaway trade union say top producers Morgan O’Sullivan and the late James Flynn committed systematic employment law breaches and set out to “fleece them out of hard-earned wages”.
“They are morally bankrupt”, a trade union rep for the workers told the Workplace Relations Commission today.
The Irish Film Workers’ Association (IFWA) says its campaigning against “systematic blacklisting” in the Irish film industry led to 39 of its members losing jobs with Metropolitan Film Productions Ltd and World 2000 Entertainment Ltd, where it says Mr O’Sullivan and the late Mr Flynn were the “principal directors”.
The respondent companies say a series of designated activity companies and special-purpose vehicles set up for tax relief on film and TV productions in Ireland, including Vikings on Amazon Prime and ‘Into the Badlands’ on AMC, were not “in any way a circumvention of employment rights”.
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Ibec representatives appearing for the production firms say they never employed the union’s members and that the workers have no right to bring claims.
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