On top of anxiety, financial insecurity, brutal hours and barely minimum wages, some Hollywood support staff have to contend with other horrors in the workplace. In fact, 72 assistants reported having had an object thrown at them by their boss or supervisor at work, according to a #PayUpHollywood survey of about 1,100 assistants that was shared at a cathartic town hall on Sunday.
Around 120 entertainment industry support staff gathered to discuss the issue of low pay at the first meeting organized by #PayUpHollywood, the hashtag-turned-movement that advocates for bosses in the biz to pay their assistants a living wage. Several assistants present shared experiences of asking their superiors for a raise, but being “put in their place” and labeled “ungrateful. Others brought up issues of being forced to do work above their pay grade in order to “prove themselves,” only for there to be “no carrot at the end of the stick.
Around 120 entertainment industry support staff gathered to discuss the issue of low pay at the first meeting organized by #PayUpHollywood, the hashtag-turned-movement that advocates for bosses in the biz to pay their assistants a living wage. Several assistants present shared experiences of asking their superiors for a raise, but being “put in their place” and labeled “ungrateful. Others brought up issues of being forced to do work above their pay grade in order to “prove themselves,” only for there to be “no carrot at the end of the stick.
- 11/25/2019
- by Will Thorne and Elaine Low
- Variety Film + TV
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