A trial expected to reveal the workings of local television news programs has been pre-empted by a confidential settlement. Former Atlanta television station WAGA reporters Karen Eisele and Marc W. Mooney sued the station for overtime pay, claiming their jobs were akin to assembly-line work. The network responded that the news reporters used "imagination, invention and talent" to do their jobs, thereby making them professionals not entitled to overtime.
March 10, 2000 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
A trial expected to reveal the workings of local television news programs has been pre-empted by a confidential settlement.
Former Atlanta television station WAGA (Fox 5) reporters Karen Eisele and Marc W. Mooney had sued the station for overtime pay, claiming their jobs were akin to assembly-line work.
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