FILE - Comedian Dave Chappelle attends a boxing bout Nov. 6, 2021, successful Las Vegas. Two erstwhile Netflix employees who raised concerns astir anti-transgender comments connected Dave Chappelles TV peculiar are dropping labour complaints and 1 has resigned from the company. Terra Field, a elder bundle technologist who is trans, announced a voluntary resignation connected Monday, Nov. 22. Field and B. Pagels-Minor besides are dropping a National Labor Relations Board ailment that claimed retaliation. (AP Photo/Steve Marcus, File) (Steve Marcus, Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

LOS ANGELES – Two erstwhile Netflix employees who criticized anti-transgender comments connected Dave Chappelle’s TV peculiar are dropping labour complaints and 1 has resigned from the company, it was announced Monday.

Terra Field, a elder bundle technologist who is trans, announced that Field had voluntarily resigned arsenic of Sunday.

“This isn’t however I thought things would end, but I’m relieved to person closure,” Field said successful a resignation missive posted online.

Chappelle's “The Closer” archetypal aired connected Oct. 1 and gained millions of views. However, Chapelle’s disparaging remarks astir the transgender assemblage raised protests wrong Netflix and from activists. About 30 Netflix workers staged a an Oct. 20 walkout and joined a rally astatine Netflix offices successful Los Angeles.

Field was suspended by the institution aft attending a concern gathering for elder executives but was rapidly reinstated.

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Field and B. Pagels-Minor, a crippled motorboat operations programme manager who besides is trans, filed a ailment with the National Labor Relations Board. They alleged that Netflix retaliated against the workers to support them from speaking up astir moving conditions, including “Netflix’s products and the interaction of its merchandise choices connected the LGBTQ+ community."

“We person resolved our differences successful a mode that acknowledges the erosion of spot connected some sides and, we hope, enables everyone to determination on,” Netflix said successful a connection Monday.

Pagels-Minor has acknowledged that they were the worker that Netflix fired past period for allegedly disclosing confidential fiscal accusation astir what it paid for “The Closer.” The accusation was referenced successful a Bloomberg quality article.

Pagels-Minor has denied the allegations.

Netflix ran into a buzz-saw of disapproval not lone with the peculiar but successful however interior memos responded to employees’ concerns, including co-CEO Ted Sarandos’ assertion that “content connected surface doesn’t straight construe to real-world harm.”

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Sarandos besides wrote that Netflix doesn’t let titles that are “designed to incite hatred oregon violence, and we don’t judge ‘The Closer’ crosses that line.”

Netflix continues to marque the peculiar disposable for streaming.

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