SAG-AFTRA Implements Work-At-Home Protocol For Some Staffers Nationwide

The SAG-AFTRA Health Plan has cut 50% from the cost of premiums for the second quarter in response to the coronavirus crisis.

SAG-AFTRA has developed a program to provide dues relief for SAG-AFTRA members during the Covid-19 pandemic with an extension of the May 1 deadline.

Hollywood’s creative guilds have been working overtime to keep residual checks going out to members during the coronavirus crisis.

A healthy young dad has been found dead in his home after showing coronavirus symptoms just 10 days after welcoming a newborn son.

“CBS This Morning” co-anchor Anthony Mason has shifted to work-from-home mode as of Wednesday after a family member began to exhibit possible symptoms of coronavirus.

“CBS This Morning” co-anchor Anthony Mason has shifted to work-from-home mode as of Wednesday after a family member began to exhibit possible symptoms of coronavirus.

Citing the coronavirus pandemic, SAG-AFTRA’s 80-member board of directors has delegated its authority to its 38-member executive committee.

SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris didn’t use to spend a lot of time in the house. More often, she could be found at the union’s Los Angeles headquarters, or around town with friends and family, at meetings or visiting the organization’s offices in New York or across the country.

SAG-AFTRA President Gabrielle Carteris has issued a video detailing the union’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.

The unions representing arts, media and entertainment are calling on Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Congress to pass emergency relief legislation that both enhances and expands state unemployment benefits, and sends direct cash to the impacted workers they represent.

Locked down pensioners are being virtually ‘reunited’ with their family after coronavirus led to visiting hours at a Scots care home being stopped.

SAG-AFTRA’s national headquarters in Los Angeles has been closed due to minimize the risk of exposure to the coronavirus.

The Casting Society of America and SAG-AFTRA Foundation have united to schedule an online panel Friday at 5:30 p.m. PT.  As productions shut down and producers continue to look for talent, the partnership between CSA and SAG-AFTRA is an unprecedented one, but necessary as a response to the coronavirus pandemic.

In today’s film news roundup, a disaster fund for SAG-AFTRA members is launched, the Doc10 festival is postponed and the Miami Film Festival plans to present awards, even though the event was called off in the middle of the festival with 27 films still to screen.

A Scots couple have been left stranded in Tenerife amid a coronavirus outbreak after their flight home was cancelled while they queued to board.