Assistants from many corners of the TV industry speak to V.F. about salary cuts and pay disparity in Hollywood: 'Those at the top of the food chain are protected, while the people who are most vulnerable have no options and have to take it on the chin”
. I have now learned from multiple sources that Kreisberg, who was a cocreator on a number of superhero shows in the CW Arrowverse, was paid nearly $10 million by Warner Bros. after he was let go. The studio and Kreisberg’s lawyer declined to comment on the matter.“Some people might say that it’s apples and oranges—cutting the pay of assistants versus what the studio paid Kreisberg not all that long ago,” said a writer-producer who worked in the Arrowverse.
“I haven’t heard that every single studio is cutting hours, but we have heard that quite a few are,” saidbusiness representative for the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local 871, which has about 700 script coordinators and writers’ assistants in its ranks. “Hopefully the industry realizes that what they’re doing to their least powerful employees, many of whom were barely getting by already, just does not look good.
“There is already a huge culture of stigma surrounding assistants who complain about their pay or who ask for overtime pay,” said a second Sony assistant. But, they added, “I don’t know anyone whose workload has decreased or departed from what they would be doing in an office. If anything, assistants are doing more just trying to keep everyone up to speed—not to mention the mental health crises many of us are dealing with in light of everything happening in the world.
One assistant said he couldn’t believe the part of the H.R. memo that said assistants should not bill the company for “non-NBCU/business-related tasks such as personal errands” for their bosses.A Universal Television spokesperson said the company has “not made any pay cuts at the assistant level,” and stated that hourly employees at NBCUniversal “get paid for the hours they work” and “are asked to have their overtime approved.
“Getting that overtime is the way that they make an almost living wage,” the WB showrunner said. Some Arrowverse employees offered to pay support staff out of their own pockets, but this showrunner and a number of her WBTV peers also pursued another remedy: Getting a group of WB showrunners to take their concerns to the studio.
Two WB showrunners say they believe that months ago, the studio was in fact contemplating raises for assistants, in part due to the issues raised by the #PayUpHollywood campaign. But when COVID-19 struck and the studio was looking for savings, in the words of one showrunner, overtime suddenly looked like “low-hanging fruit and they cut it, without necessarily realizing who it would affect and how it would look.
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