By Dave McNary
12.05.2020 - 03:03 / deadline.com
By David Robb
Labor Editor
The SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s COVID-19 Relief Fund has distributed more than $4 million in direct financial assistance to some 4,000 SAG-AFTRA members in urgent need, with hundreds of applications still being reviewed. In his seventh “fireside chat,” Foundation president Courtney B. Vance noted today that “it’s still taking approximately three weeks to receive assistance, so please hang in there and be patient.”
See his latest “fireside chat” here:
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By Dave McNary
By Dave McNary
Grandparents can get paid for helping to occupy their grandchildren online or on the phone during the coronavirus pandemic.
By David Robb
By David Robb
SAG-AFTRA will require members to seek the union's approval before accepting new work amid health and safety concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic as lockdown measures begin to be eased.
By David Robb
By Dave McNary
What’s a union to do about inadequate contract language when members are taking it on the chin? That’s the problem confronting SAG-AFTRA: some television studios are holding actors under contract on unpaid “hiatus” during the pandemic rather than paying them as per force majeure provisions. That’s because 2009 revisions to the SAG TV Agreement made the entire force majeure concept arguably optional.
By Dave McNary
By Dave McNary
By Dave McNary