Several Los Angeles-based actors took a payment dispute with a casting director to a local consumer affairs TV reporter after going almost a year without receiving their money. The story had a happy ending, but it also serves as a reminder about the official avenues actors can use to resolve these types of disputes and the protections provided by union membership. Performers who are having trouble getting paid, for instance, can contact the California Labor Commissioner’s office in San Francisco, which will send them a packet to be filled out and returned to “determine controversy” and then proceed with an investigation. In this case of “the check is in the mail,” performers Phil Thompson and Dagmar Edwards both complained that Christopher Gray Casting had shorted them money for work on a corporate video shoot in Long Beach earlier this year. Edwards told NBC4 she was promised $500 for the shoot,...
- 11/13/2012
- backstage.com
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