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   From: jwkenne@attglobal.net   
      
   bllbickel wrote:   
   > Alison Hopkins wrote:   
   >> "bllbickel"  wrote in message   
   >> news:1159825929.786807.250460@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...   
   >>> Alison Hopkins wrote:   
   >>>> "bllbickel"  wrote in message   
   >>>> news:1159815173.717025.71010@m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com...   
   >>>>> Troy.Heagy@gmail.com wrote:   
   >>>>>> WB asked the actors to sign a "contract extension" after season 4 to   
   >>>>>> confirm they were still going to work for Babylon 5, after TNT   
   >>>>>> picked-up season 5.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> All the actors signed it.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Claudia Christian (ivanova) did not sign it.  In other words, she   
   >>>>>> resigned as an employee of Babylonian Productions/WB.  Colloquially   
   >>>>>> referred to as "quitting" a job.   
   >>>>>> .   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> I don't know how, given those facts, anyone could say Claudia did not   
   >>>>>> quit?  It defies all logic.   
   >>>>> Actually, refusing to sign a contract extension is neither quitting not   
   >>>>> being fired. It's declining an offer of employment.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>> It can also be that the contract was unfair, of course.   
   >>> An offer of employment is an offer of employment. If you like the terms   
   >>> you agree, and if you don't like them you don't. Nobody's forcing you   
   >>> one way or the other. I don't see how "unfair" can even apply.   
   >>>   
   >> It can in UK  and European employment  law, but I suspect not in US law.   
   >> There have been a fair few cases around TUPE, for example, related to   
   >> contract extensions.   
   >>   
   >> Ali   
   >   
   > Please explain how a contract offer can be inherently "unfair."   
   > Seriously, I'm curious how the description can apply.   
      
   It makes theoretical sense if "unfair" be read as layman's talk for   
   legal "unconscionable". But to suggest that CC's offer (with a "most   
   favored nation clause" at that) was unconscionable, when everyone in the   
   cast but Jerry Doyle had a much more impressive c.v. than she, borders   
   on outright absurdity.   
      
   The /best/ that could be hoped is that CC is the sort of woman who goes   
   all Blanche DuBois whenever technicalities come up (I know some highly   
   intelligent women who are like that, some of them actresses) and she   
   really didn't see that she was asking for the impossible. (To remind   
   everyone, she demanded guaranteed episodes off in writing, which would   
   have automatically translated to the same number of guaranteed episodes   
   off in writing for all the other actors in the cast.)   
      
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   John W. Kennedy   
   "The blind rulers of Logres   
   Nourished the land on a fallacy of rational virtue."   
      -- Charles Williams.  "Taliessin through Logres: Prelude"   
      
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