SAG-AFTRA and Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers have reached an interim agreement that includes exclusivity clauses, standard clauses in television contracts that force actors out of the market and cannot work for long periods of time. The provisional agreement is subject to the approval of the SAG-AFTRA National Council, which will meet on Saturday 20 August.
Specific details will not be released until the council’s deliberations, but before the interim agreement was reached, the union said “exclusivity contracts are outdated and harmful to creative artists and their families. Since 2009, series seasons have been reduced from 24 episodes to an average of 12. Free time between seasons has increased from five months to 14 months. It is a long time to be unemployed and has a high financial cost for the actors and their families.
“Manufacturers have taken their production and display models into the 21st century and it is time for their employees to join them.” Forced unemployment is immoral and scandalous. Unfair and outdated exclusivity clauses or contractual clauses that keep actors tied to employers and unable to work for months or years. Actors often have to miss other job opportunities, even when there is no conflict with their original employer. “
Source: Deadline
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