Working Overtime

There's a post on the TAG blog that among other things, breaks down the cost and implications of working overtime for a studio and not getting paid for it. As it stands in my current job, I don't mind putting in an extra hour a day, but I haven't given much thought into it, so this post has really struck a chord with me and it's something to remember for the future.

If you work sixty hours and only put forty hours on the time card, here’s what you’re doing to yourself and your fellow union members, not just in TAG but in the entire IATSE, over a one-year period of employment:

• You’ve screwed yourself out of $1,000 per week, $52,000 per year — and that’s just at straight time.
• You’ve screwed yourself and everyone in our Hollywood-wide benefit plan out of 1,040 hours of health, pension and IAP contributions.
• You’ve essentially lowered your hourly wage from $50 to $33.33.
• In so doing, you’ve screwed a fellow union member because you’ve taken work at lesser conditions than someone who might have insisted on being paid legally.

If you consider how many people do this at studios everywhere, the damage is astronomical.

Read the full post HERE