NBCUniversal Extends Health Insurance For Non-Union Crew Members By 4 Months After Notification Snafu In Unprecedented Move

deadline.com:

EXCLUSIVE: In a story with a happy ending before the holiday weekend, NBCUniversal has stepped up to help disenfranchised employees heavily impacted by the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.

Non-union crew members, including production assistants, are among the most vulnerable during the work stoppages as they generally don’t have free access to the funds Hollywood guilds have set up to assist struggling members.

Already having to rely largely on unemployment benefits for income, non-union employees on NBCUniversal shows got more alarming news Wednesday that came as a surprise to many: they were notified that their company-subsidized health insurance was being cut off the next day, August 31.

A number of affected employees reached out to Deadline to describe the desperate situation they’d found themselves in, having less than 30 hours to find new coverage or pay quadruple their monthly cost to retain their current insurance.