@KateCoggins BFEWhat to charge as a freelancer is always tricky. And must be getting harder.

Because you want to be paid what your worth, and for 30 years every show I’ve ever worked on.. the production manager says “This time the budget is really stretch”. As if we don’t hear that on every negotiation.

It doesn’t surprise me that production managers talk. I’m more surprised this has become a legal issue.

But with the industry in decline, I can see that freelancers are going to have their rates crushed if they are desperate for work, and only a few productions hold all of the cards.

So they get fined… where does the money go? To the freelancers who were underpaid? I doubt it…