Legal Question in Employment Law in California

I have been working as an extra on tv shoots. According to state labor laws, workers are entitled to meal periods every 6 hours. the production went beyond our second 6 hour break on several occasions and when I asked for an additional meal penalty for this, they said only the people who are in the SAG union get compensated. How does the union negate the labor laws for the rest of us?


Asked on 4/08/11, 10:51 am

1 Answer from Attorneys

TV and movie productions are under their own very special set of wage and hour laws, and that is not an area most attorneys really know anything about unless they specialize in the TV and movie industry. I suggest the quickest way to get an answer and/or results is to contact the Dept. of Industrial Relations Bureau of Labor Standards Enforcement. They're readily accessible on the web.

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Answered on 4/08/11, 10:58 am


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