Posted on 03/30/2022 9:17:37 AM PDT by Loyalist
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - After filing for bankruptcy, the now-defunct Black News Channel is unable to pay some of its employees their earned wages, said a spokesperson.
The channel, which was based in Tallahassee but broadcast nationwide, touted 24/7 programming dedicated to covering minority communities. It had been operating for roughly two years when on Friday its President and CEO Princell Hair announced to employees in an email that the company would be immediately ceasing live operations and filing for bankruptcy. Employees did not receive their scheduled paychecks that day.
BNC spokesperson Tim Buckman told WCTV that payroll deposits that had been scheduled for Friday, would instead be deposited on Monday. By Monday, Buckman was no longer with the company.
After multiple follow-up requests by WCTV inquiring if employees had in fact been paid on Monday, a different spokesperson responded Tuesday night and said a majority, but not all employees, had been compensated for “earned wages.” Employees that still had “earned but unpaid wages owed” would have to wait until after bankruptcy proceedings and assets could potentially be liquidated, said the statement. It did not say how many employees were unpaid.
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Black Lives Matter!
Can’t wait to see the almost inevitable charges of embezzlement.
Well heck, do what any good democRAT would do. Ask for a handout!
How about asking blackliesmatter for the money?
Wonder how much graft and luxury vacations they took ?
Chris Rock’s fault? Slap him.
Just like every country around the world run by those people. Right into the bread line.
All those employees are getting stiffed by whitey, no doubt. Right?
Damn! It matters not because the tv is very well diversified with ‘black’ programming all over the place.
If they did not pay or set aside enough funds to pay their employee employment taxes then the officers of the company can be held personally liable.
First rule of business, the government always gets paid.
Are there going to be reparations?
‘dat mussbee aldatt sisemmik white raycism
Not enough black on black crime to report on to keep them up, and running?
I’m sure the ones at the top are the ones going unpaid. /s
Has anyone seen J.C. Watts, the Trump-hating RINO who “founded” the Black News Channel? Guessing Rev. Watts hasn’t been hanging around the network headquarters in recent months.
I wish we could get rid of black Slavery in Amerika.
Surprise, surprise, surprise...
Why did the headline writer put the word “earned” in “quotes”? I didn’t see it as a direct quote by someone, it isn’t a special term of art and it’s not used ironically like if I said a senator “earned” his pay.
Believe it or not, unpaid wages earned within 180 days and up to 12K are distributed ahead of taxes in a bankruptcy proceeding.
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