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In February 2017, an undercover investigation shook the Los Angeles acting community. Criminal charges were filed against 28 defendants linked to five casting workshops over alleged pay-to-play schemes.
A yearlong effort by the Los Angeles city attorney’s office found that these workshops had violated the
Krekorian Talent Scam Prevention Act when they charged aspiring actors to participate in auditions. Among those charged were several well-known casting professionals with credits in shows on Netflix, ABC and CBS.
That’s just one high-profile example of the scams that target people in the entertainment industry. If you’re just starting out or it’s early in your career, you need to be careful about upfront fees, guarantees of employment and really anything that feels too good to be true.
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In California legislative updates, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed SB 93 into law, requiring that hospitality industry employers offer workers laid off due to COVID-19 positions based on a.
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Tuesday, May 18, 2021
California recently enacted an employee recall law that may substantially affect employers in the tourism and travel industries amid the emerging post-Covid-19 economy. On the heels of Governor Gavin Newsom’s announcement to fully reopen its economy on June 15, 2021 – presuming the welcome and waning Covid-19 hospitalization rates – the state took another step to protect laid-off employees who had worked in hotels, clubs, event centers (e.g. concert halls, stadiums, sports arenas, racetracks, coliseums, and convention centers), airports and building services in retail and commercial buildings, before the Covid-19 emergency in March 2020.
SB 93, codified as Labor Code section 2810.8, requires owners and operators of covered businesses to provide a written offer of employment to laid-off employees, regardless of change in ownership or assets or relocation of the business since the employee’s layoff, so long as the business conducts the same or