Those $600-a-week bonus unemployment payments have started to arrive for entertainment industry workers in California who lost their jobs in the coronavirus shutdown. “I got mine yesterday,” a location manager told Deadline. “I think it will help everyone in the industry because we’re all out of work and nobody knows when it’s going to start up again.”
The recent $2 trillion Cares Actnow adds an additional $600 per week to the amount of unemployment insurance benefits recipients ordinarily would get. In California, anyone entitled to the maximum of $450 a week will receive $1,050 a week for the next four months.
Hollywood Industry...
The recent $2 trillion Cares Actnow adds an additional $600 per week to the amount of unemployment insurance benefits recipients ordinarily would get. In California, anyone entitled to the maximum of $450 a week will receive $1,050 a week for the next four months.
Hollywood Industry...
- 4/14/2020
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
The California Employment Development Department will present a webinar on Thursday to answer entertainment industry workers’ questions about filing for unemployment benefits during the coronavirus shutdown.
A coalition of Hollywood guilds and unions including SAG-aftra, the DGA, Iatse, Teamsters Local 399, Musicians Local 47 and Laborers Local 724 are encouraging their members to take part. Ken Gomez, deputy division chief of the Edd’s Los Angeles Workforce Services Division, will be fielding questions.
The webinar, which is being hosted by the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, will start at 10 a.m. April 9. Registration is required to participate. Click here to register.
Separately, SAG-aftra president Gabrielle Carteris is...
A coalition of Hollywood guilds and unions including SAG-aftra, the DGA, Iatse, Teamsters Local 399, Musicians Local 47 and Laborers Local 724 are encouraging their members to take part. Ken Gomez, deputy division chief of the Edd’s Los Angeles Workforce Services Division, will be fielding questions.
The webinar, which is being hosted by the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, will start at 10 a.m. April 9. Registration is required to participate. Click here to register.
Separately, SAG-aftra president Gabrielle Carteris is...
- 4/7/2020
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
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