Warner Bros. Discovery filed a lawsuit this week accusing Amazon of interference with contractual relations, breach of contract, and unfair competitors.
As reported by Deadline, the lawsuit alleges Amazon has been “hurriedly searching for to pirate away plenty of contracted staff,” together with Pia Barlow, an HBO Max advertising govt who lately joined Amazon MGM Studios. Warner Bros. (whose pending acquisition by Paramount has been paused for at least a few months) mentioned Barlow’s employment contract was “not set to run out till October 31, 2027.”
“In blatant disregard of established California legislation, Amazon has gone rogue by trying to induce Plaintiffs’ staff with time period employment agreements to breach these agreements with impunity, backed up with the prepared assurance that Amazon will defend and indemnify them ought to they be held to account for his or her blatantly illegal acts,” Warner Bros. mentioned.
The corporate additionally accused Amazon of searching for to “tortiously induce one other WBD worker to breach their time period employment settlement, which was not set to run out till December 2027,” though that govt (believed to be HBO programming govt Francesca Orsi) finally stayed at Warner Bros.
Deadline famous that this lawsuit is more likely to renew debates about whether or not time period employment agreements are literally enforceable below California legislation.
Amazon MGM Studios declined to remark.
