The blast radius from the controversy over Dave Chappelle’s repeated remarks about the trans and LGBTQ+ communities in his Netflix special The Closer has now extended to the National Labor Relation…
as the “employer representative,” fired Netflix program manager B. Pagels-Minor and suspended senior software engineer Terra Field filed paperwork with the federal agency on October 27 over the “false and pretextual reasons” and “retaliation” leveled against them respectively.
“We recognize the hurt and pain caused to our trans colleagues over the last few weeks,” a spokesperson for the streamer told Deadline this afternoon. “But we want to make clear that Netflix has not taken any action against employees for either speaking up or walking out.”In a October 25 released video promoting the latest dates on his current tour for his Untitled documentary, Chappelle has said he is willing to meet with members of the trans community.
“I screwed up the internal communication — and I don’t mean just mechanically,” the exec said in a series of calibrated media appearances as a October 20 walkout by Netflix trans staffers and others loomed. “I feel I should’ve made sure to recognize that a group of our employees was hurting very badly from the decision made, and I should’ve recognized upfront before going into a rationalization of anything the pain they were going through.
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