By Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, Film United Talent Agency has just informed its employees there will be “temporary furloughs” that are needed in light of the pandemic.
The number is high, I’m told, and will mainly impact assistants, but isn’t entirely limited to that. Employees impacted by this will lose their paychecks in a couple of weeks and the intention is to bring people back when business resumes.
Employees will have their health premiums paid, and the expectation is they will be filing for unemployment checks that will help them through this crisis, and the advance notice hopefully gives those furloughed the chance to apply for unemployment and have it kick in when the paychecks stop.
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