Let me tell you something about our film and television industry. Overseas. If the domestic film and television industry, from the perspective of system and law, I am sorry, is still in a completely primitive society, there is really nothing to say.
So I’m going to use domestic versus foreign, and I’m going to use foreign as an example.
Filming in China, the big night is very normal, the director said, we each busy, dawn back to the elevator a few boxes of instant noodles a person to finish. What? Labor law? Eight hours? Overtime pay? Brother, I will pay your salary now, and you can change your team — the real situation is like this.
Abroad, just Hollywood. No matter who you are, want to have a big night? Is that written in the contract? How many overtime hours are allowed per month? How long is it at a time? How about the pay? Notice, this is not for the leading actor, it is for everyone, including our ordinary worker treatment here, and the leading actor, will care about this with you. If there are no special circumstances, sorry, it’s time to go home.
What about night scenes? According to working hours, rest during the day and shoot at night.
If you feel like you’re the boss and call in overtime and no one pays attention to you, that’s fine. Normally, the next day the SCREEN Actors Guild buys you tea: Tell me, what happened to your group yesterday?
If someone says I’m willing to work overtime and make more money, that’s fine, but the next day the staff will invite you to tea: Tell me, what happened to you yesterday? Did you break the law? You are suspected of illegal OR unfair competition, you must stop this behavior, OR we will send you a warning/lawyer’s letter/police.
Why? Because by working overtime, you are infringing on others’ interests.
What does overtime mean? That means you’re working 32 more hours a week than the 5-day, 8-hour person, which is equivalent to four days of work for an 8-hour worker. If two people do this, that means one more job needs to be added to fill the job.
Now that you are 996, you are willing to do so, but you are depriving others of employment opportunities, increasing the social unemployment rate, and you are increasing your own income by breaking the rules while everyone else is obeying them (the eight-hour work week, the five-day work week). Therefore, you are unfair competition. So the union will come to you for tea, and if you don’t change, you’ll be expelled from the union, and if you don’t change, you’ll get a summons.
Some Chinese run convenience stores in foreign countries and take care of their own stores, so they will receive this warning seven days a week. Other people open their doors five days a week, but you have no day off seven days a week. Sorry to warn you. No change, the police come. You are suspected of unfair competition, damaging the interests of others and reducing social employment opportunities.
If you want to be open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, OK, no problem, hire enough workers, they work 5 days a week, 8 hours a day, you can run it any way you like. It’s called fair play.
This is also reflected in some technical jobs. For example, when filming the need for power electricity, the domestic people will call to look around, there is a place to receive, give some money to shout a random person to receive a line over, done.
Overseas, sorry, this job must be done by a licensed electrician, what? You didn’t think of that when you set up the team? Then wait, first go to the screen actors Guild and ask them to send you one, and then hurry up to do the formalities, what kind of pay, accommodation, food, working hours and what to do are very clear, strictly enforced. Don’t you dare send someone to call me yourself. Just wait for your tea OR a warning/lawyer’s letter.
This is called labor protection, fair competition, while shouldering the social responsibility of an enterprise, to increase employment opportunities for the society, improve social wealth.
Who benefits most from working overtime? The capitalists.
A full-time job at home means five social insurance and one housing fund, the cost of working space, equipment, and a range of overhead costs, such as administration and administration.
If you work overtime, you only need to be paid for it, not to mention volunteering for unpaid overtime.
How much will it save management?
The bad thing is that the position originally required three people, but now only two people, so some people can’t find a job. It could be you, it could be somebody else, but somebody in this society must have lost a job opportunity, right? So if a company that used to need 300 people for a given job has 996, it now needs 200.
As a result, enterprises not only shirk their social responsibilities, but also reduce costs and expenditures. However, the consequence that it reduces employment opportunities should be borne by the whole society as well as you and me. What is unfair competition but taking advantage of the whole society? For example, jingdong demands 996 while laying off employees, which is typical in this aspect.
I have seen a message before, that some investment boss said, if the domestic entrepreneurs to go abroad, the vast majority of the second can kill foreign entrepreneurs. In fact, this is nonsense, really so, why all back to start a successful business? What are the successful cases abroad? Don’t Chinese people start businesses abroad? Apparently not. The real reason is that there can be disorderly competition and unfair competition in China, such as plagiarism, plagiarism, copyright infringement, 996, too many to enumerate, ao, and financial service fees, you go abroad to try? I’m going to sum it up with a phrase from one of our most ancient texts: Half-start and half-end abort. To stay out of prison is a good deed.
The biggest role of the trade union is to protect the interests of workers, and to fight for job opportunities is its biggest goal. So, in Hollywood actor to join are proud of the screen actors guild, sag to join a threshold, it is not easy to join, once joined you keep identity, will assume the corresponding obligations and responsibilities, such as pay membership fees, not to work, and so on, if you are the boss in violation of regulations to shout you work overtime, the union will be out for you. That’s all.
In Hollywood, the main antagonists of the SCREEN Actors Guild are the producers and studios, TV stations, streaming platforms and other big bosses representing the capital. Of course, you have to pay the membership dues, which are quite high.
996 is not impossible. Some special posts and occupations do need 996, but they need strict rules and corresponding laws and regulations, rather than the barbaric growth like the primitive society.
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