Talent agency Verve increases assistant pay and other benefits in response to PayUpHollywood
Boutique talent agency Verve has announced it is implementing a number of changes to pay and work-life balance that will benefit its assistants.
Los Angeles-based Verve, which has 75 employees, is the first Hollywood entity to publicly recognize these issues among assistants and to respond with concrete measures.and side with writers in their ongoing dispute with agencies over packaging fees and other practices.Last month, the agency conducted an internal survey among its assistants. “We asked them what was important to them,” said Weinstein.
They include an unspecified hourly pay rate increase for all mailroom assistants and a 25% to 40% bump for other assistants, depending on their position. In an effort to help defray out-of-pocket expenses, the agency will offer a dry-cleaning program with subsidized rates as well as a dropoff and pickup service.“We think this is a good start and appreciate Verve’s leadership in providing a fair wage to assistants across their company,” said Deirdre Mangan, a TV writer who co-founded #PayUpHollywood with fellow TV writer Liz Alper, who is also a Writers Guild of America, West, board member.
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