MrBeast and Amazon are dealing with a class-action lawsuit on behalf of 5 unnamed contestants within the Beast Video games actuality competitors present.
YouTube star MrBeast (actual title Jimmy Donaldson), with greater than 316 million subscribers, partnered with Amazon to host what was set to be the biggest actuality present in historical past, with over 1,000 contestants and a $5-million prize.
On Sept. 16, a grievance was filed with the Los Angeles Superior Courtroom alleging the contestants have been subjected to “power mistreatment,” sexual harassment, emotional misery, and extra. Every thing is included on this redacted copy of the grievance.
Moreover, the class-action lawsuit on behalf of all of the contestants calls for they be compensated for allegedly unpaid wages, bills, and financial damages throughout their time on the present.
The lawsuit alleges that MrBeast’s manufacturing firm, Off One’s Base LLC, didn’t pay additional time and minimal wages, did not present the contestants with uninterrupted meal breaks and relaxation breaks, did not present employees compensation advantages, and uncovered them to “harmful circumstances and situations as a situation of their employment.”
Whereas many parts of the grievance are redacted, it claims “the Beast Video games Manufacturing was so void of requirements of affordable care that MrBeast® allegedly provided to cowl the contestants’ remedy.”
Though Amazon has claimed will probably be “the world’s largest stay gameshow,” Beast Video games has but to obtain a launch date.
BuzzFeed has reached out to reps for MrBeast and Amazon for feedback.
