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UPDATE: Toldja that Jay Leno was feeling the PR heat. 
Now unofficial reports say that, for at least the next week, Leno will pay out of his own pocket the salaries of some 80 staffers of The Tonight Show who were laid off on Friday. Executive producer Debbie Vickers began calling laid-off employees Saturday to give them the news, and phone calls from Vickers and others were expected to continue through Monday. Better late than never, huh?
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I have to agree here with the people defending Leno. True, he didn’t pay them outright the minute they were laid off, but wait a minute…why does HE have to pay them at all? He is NOT responsible for the strike. And I bet these same people who are complaining about his actions now are the same people who would have complained about him if he had crossed the picket line, again in a strike he didn’t cause. Give him a break. And stop misdirecting anger.
Leno is scabalicious…Whether he should or should not have paid his employees is rendered moot by that fact.
Wow. Now correct me if I’m wrong, but if you go on strike for a union, it’s the union that’s supposed to pay for it, not some individual who happens to be your boss at some level or another? (That’s what unions do in my country, anyways.)I don’t think I’ve ever heard such ungrateful whining as the comments on this site (or even from the person writing this, ‘Nikki’). Now don’t get me wrong, I’m all for this strike (as a potential future writer) and this is really horrible pr for the cause. If you go on strike, you expect to lose money for it. So complaining about someone paying your wages despite the strike is just silly. And so what if Leno hesitated (allegedly) a moment? Was anyone even without pay for a day..?