[UK TV Freelancers] CV clinic 20th Jan; holiday pay survey results

Dear TV Freelancer,

Firstly, a very Happy New Year to you all!

1. Holiday pay survey - tell us who is deducting this from your rate

Towards the end of last year we invited you to take part in a repeat of the
holiday pay practices survey which we first carried out in 2003. That
initial survey had 322 responses; the repeat of the survey had a similar
sample size of 311.

The findings of the survey are frankly not good. The headline statistic is
that where 39% of freelancers had holiday pay deducted from their agreed
rate in 2003, that figure had gone up to just under 50% in 2005. The full
findings are here: 
 
http://p206.ezboard.com/fuktvfreelancersfrm4.showMessage?topicID=350.topic
and you can contribute to the debate by posting your thoughts in this
thread, too.
 
This is the practice that freelancers most object to and which we have
spoken out against since TV Freelancers first began. It's one of three areas
of law which TV Wrap raised again last year. Even PACT advised its members
on its website that:

"The Working Time Regulations 1998 entitle all workers, regardless of the
length of their contract, to four weeks? paid holiday per year, pro rata...
It is Pact?s recommendation that pay offers and contracts should always be
expressed as amounts net of any holiday pay, and that any holiday pay should
be paid on top of the quoted pay rate."

We'd now like to know who is operating this policy. Email us at
holidaypay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and if you have had holiday pay deducted
from an agreed rate in the last six months, tell us who by. At this stage it
is purely to build up a profile - your anonymity, as ever, is safe, and we
will not use, publish, or pass on any of the information or identifying
details without coming back to you for permission. But dropping us a quick
email with the names of the companies or broadcasters doing this will be
hugely helpful.
 
2. CV clinic
 
Feeling like a giving your career a boost in the New Year? After a very
successful inaugural clinic last autumn, TVFL's sister site, the Escape
Route, is running another CV clinic a week on Friday - the 20th January. The
location will be in the Kings Cross area, as before, and the price for 30
mins of one-on-one CV consultation with TV specialist careers coach Jill
Dean will be £39. Six slots are still available in the afternoon so please
email  <mailto:mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx if
you'd like to book a slot - first come first served. Whether you are looking
to move upwards, sideways, or out of the industry altogether, your most
important tool is your CV - and with Jill's television background, she can
help you sharpen that tool to its most effective. Visit
www.tvescaperoute.co.uk for more info.
 
That's it for now,
 
Very best wishes as always
 
TV Freelancers
 
www.tvfreelancers.org.uk

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