Exclusive: In many ways, location scouts and managers were the canaries in the coal mine for the industry’s coronavirus shutdown. As news accounts reported the spread of the virus, first in Asia and then in the U.S., homes and businesses began closing their doors to location shoots. It happened slowly at first, and then all at once. Scouts and managers, represented by Hollywood’s Teamsters Local 399, also were among the first in the industry to apply for newly expanded unemployment benefits – up from the maximum of $450 a week to $1,050 a week for the next four months.
Deadline reached out to location scouts and managers to see how they’re coping with the shutdown, and if they’ve started getting the extra $600 a week in employment benefits allocated by Congress in the $2 trillion relief bill. For those who had been working, most received two weeks of shutdown pay, so...
Deadline reached out to location scouts and managers to see how they’re coping with the shutdown, and if they’ve started getting the extra $600 a week in employment benefits allocated by Congress in the $2 trillion relief bill. For those who had been working, most received two weeks of shutdown pay, so...
- 4/3/2020
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
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