Equity Set to Commence Talks with SPADA

Equity Set to Commence Talks with Spada

NZ Actors’ Equity and the Screen Production & Development Association (SPADA) have entered into an agreement to commence good faith negotiations for a new set of conditions which will govern the way in which performers are engaged in the local screen industry.

Talks are to take place over the next six months. As a sign of good faith, while negotiations occur, Equity has agreed that those productions which fully comply with the current guidelines for the engagement of cast in the industry - “The Pink Book” - will not be subject to industrial action.

“It’s the beginning of much welcomed process which should ultimately provide a level of security and certainty to all who collaborate in the screen production industry,” said Jennifer Ward-Lealand, Equity’s president.

ENDS

Clarification issued subsequently:

It has come to our attention that some confusion has been created regarding the two press releases issued by NZ Equity today.

For the purposes of clarification the discussions between SPADA and NZ Equity have no application to the production of The Hobbit and the contracting of performers on The Hobbit is in no way contingent on the outcome of those discussions.

The decision of the Board of NZ Equity in relation to its recommendation to its foreign counterpart performer unions regarding The Hobbit stands unconditionally.

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