Following extensive consultation with the Equity Diversity Committee, the Casting Guild of Australia (CGA) has adopted a diversity policy that will now be included on their website, Facebook page and in CGA members’ casting briefs and email signatures.
Equity is commonly alerted to overly onerous or restrictive clauses requiring artists not do anything to bring the producer, client, product, sponsor, and/or the artist’s character into disrepute, contempt, scandal or ridicule.
Following is the opening address made by MEAA Victoria and Tasmania regional director Carolyn Dunbar to the Victorian Parliamentary inquiry into the Labour Hire Industry and Insecure Work in Melbourne on Monday, February 8, 2016. Read the MEAA submission here. Thank you for the opportunity to speak to our written submissions already made to this inquiry […]
Performing away from home? You should be receiving a living away from home allowance.
MEAA is concerned by the increasing trend towards contingent work in all areas of the industries it represents, and the fact that it is now taking root in media organisations where work has historically been permanent in nature.
