www.backstage.com: Parents of child actors working outside New York and Los Angeles face a dilemma. If their children’s careers develop, they’ll be given the opportunity to join SAG-AFTRA, but doing so could limit their opportunities to do nonunion work. Still, there are limited legal protections for actors working outside the major entertainment industry centers.
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hey look a purely informative article, seriously though this has a lot of great information. I was not aware that overtime was actually illegal for minors. i have worked on films as a set medic before with minors as the leads and was not aware of the law about a parent has to be able to hear and or see their child at any given point in time. It makes sense i just wasnt aware it was an actual law. On another film I worked on the lead was a 16 year old and she actually had herself emancipated so she could avoid the various child labor laws which made the film process a lot easier because she would have been the only minor on the cast. I would like to see what the laws are in pittsburgh because technically in pittsburgh any person enrolled in college in the Pittsburgh (not sure if its state wide) is not considered a minor regardless of age. does this apply to these labor and union laws
I never heard about unions until I came here, and never really realized how involved they were until learning all about the Equity rules. Its good that they are around to prevent lots of extortion and I wonder how many commercial shows happen w/o Equity actors. These rules (in the article) seem to be very well written. It looks like it does a good job of preventing producers from taking advantage of kids and parents who do not know that much about the field. As well as helping to prevent parents from using their kids to make money because at least part of it has to be put in a trust for the kids until they are of age. I wonder if (and hope) that parents are not the people in charge of taking care of the trust. Or else it seems like it would defeat the purpose. My father had a trust when he was 10 but his mother spent it all before he was of age so he never saw a cent of it. Very helpful article!
I agree with Isaac that its nice to see that the children are protected in terms of those trust funds so their parents cant exploit them for the money they earn. That being said, the article said that was only true in NY and LA. What about the kids from outside those areas? I think that child laws/ union rules should be the same everywhere. It makes it easy for parents to take advantage of their kids.
I have always thought the idea of being a child star was both frightening and pretty cool. After seeing many of my child idols, such as lindsay lohan- i mean lets be honest who wouldve expected that awesome twin/non-twin to turn into such a wild and crazy girl?- not me anyways i feel like these rules are definetly needed. Michael Jackson. (linsay wanted me to talk abiout him) - I think that kids need rules but i also think that some of them shouldnt be abblied to kids over a certian age. like i get the whole children need breaks thing but i feel like once theyre over the age of 15 it dosent need to be as strict.
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