Vancouver, Canada animation artists who worked on hit cg feature Sausage Party were handed a major victory this week from the Canadian government after the British Columbia Employment Standards Branch ruled that workers were entitled to receive overtime pay for their work on the 2016 film.
“We’re extremely pleased with the decision,” said Jennifer Moreau, secretary-treasurer at Unifor Local 2000, the union that filed the legal complaint on behalf of the film’s non-unionized workers. “It means people will be paid properly, and studios will have to think twice before claiming their employees are high-tech and ineligible for overtime.”
Unifor filed the complaint two-and-a-half years ago, following allegations that first surfaced on Cartoon Brew’s comments section from animators who claimed they had not been paid overtime for their work on the film.