A former contestant on Love Is Blind has sued the makers of the Netflix dating series for a series of alleged labor violations, marking another lawsuit challenging working conditions and pay in reality TV.

In a proposed class action filed in California state court on Monday, Stephen Richardson says he and the show’s other contestants should’ve been classified as employees, which would’ve entitled them to certain protections relating to minimum wage, overtime and illegal contractual terms over confidentiality.

The filing comes after the National Labor Relations Board last year issued a complaint against the production in which it said that castmembers were misclassified as independent contractors, opening the door to possible unionization. For years, contestants on Love Is Blind and

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