Year book of motion pictures (1941)

ence of any other member or members of the Standing Committee or in the presence of any of the parties interested in or parties to such matter, claim or controversy. It is further agreed that any member of the Standing Committee shall have the right, at any time, to communicate with any person interested in or a party to any matter, claim or controversy before the Standing Committee regarding anything involved therein, and that such communication need not be made in the presence of any other persons interested in or parties to such matter, claim or controversy, or in the presence of any other members of the Standing Committee. Hearings before the Standing Committee shall not be public, and the Standing Committee may act informally. The Standing Committee shall not determine or arbitrate any matter hereunder, until and unless conciliation shall have been attempted in like manner as provided in paragraph 16 of the Basic Agreement. The foregoing does not relate to the functions of the Standing Committee with respect to the issuance of waivers as provided in paragraph 13 hereof, or with respect to disputes under paragraph 20 hereof. The provisions of paragraph 30 of the Basic Agreement shall apply with respect to the Producer's committee herein provided for. Any Producer representative on the Standing Committee may be appointed as a member of the Producer's committee herein provided for, and any representative of the Guild on the Standing Committee may be appointed as a member of the Guild's committee herein provided for. 3. The provisions of paragraph 18 of the "Screen Actors Guild Minimum Contract for Free Lance Players" (hereinafter referred to as the "free lance contract") with respect to the twelve-hour rest period (as amended hereby) shall be deemed incorporated in all stock and contract player contracts while the base rate of compensation thereunder is $1,000.00 per week or less, and in all day player contracts, except that such stock players, contract players and day players may be required to waive the rest period, but such waiver shall not afTect their right to additional compensation as specified in paragraph 18 of the free lance contract on account of such waiver. Free lance players receiving in excess of $500.00 per week but not in excess of $1,000.00 per week and whose contracts provide for less than a three weeks' guaranty, may also be required to waive the rest period (without affecting their right to additional compensation) in any case where the rest period is less than that required solely by reason of time consumed for makeup, wardrobe, hair-dress and the like in excess of the allowable time for such purposes, but such waiver may be required only to the extent of such excess time. 4. Free lance players receiving $500.00 per week or under, free lance players receiving in excess of $500.00 per week but not in excess of $1,000.00 per week and whose contracts provide for less than a three weeks guaranty, stock and contract players while receiving $500.00 per week or under shall receive overtime pay as follows : (a) Except as hereinafter otherwise provided, such players shall receive overtime pay on the basis of time and one-half for overtime in excess of forty-eight hours worked in any week and on the basis of double time for overtime in excess of ten hours worked in any day. For the purpose of computing overtime, the player's week in every instance shall commence on the day of the week on which he is first placed on salar>'. In case of any suspension or interruption of any player's employment at any time for seven consecutive days or more, for any reason whatsoever, thereafter such player's week shall commence on the day of the week when he is again placed on salary. Where compensation is payable for less than a week the number of hours worked shall be prorated on a forty-eight-hour (six-day) basis but nothing herein shall afTect the player's right to overtime with reference to the ten-hour period on any one day. To illustrate the foregoing, if the final fractional week of a player's employment consists of Thursday, Friday and Saturday overtime shall be computed only as to the period beyond twenty-four hours. As a further illustration, if the final fractional week of a player's employment consists of Friday, Saturday and Sunday, overtime shall be computed only as to the period beyond twenty-four hours, provided, however, that in the latter instance credit for work of stock players on Sunday shall be given as elsewhere in this agreement provided. To the extent that any weekly or daily overtime is caused by travel time (whether at the beginning, during or at the end of the day), pay for such overtime shall be computed on the basis of straight time instead of time and one-half or double time. All overtime pay, pursuant to the provisions of this paragraph 4, shall be computed on the basis of fifteen-minute units, except that any overtirne to free lance players which is payable on the basis of time and one-half or double time shall be computed on the basis of one-hour units. For the purpose of computing the number of hours worked during any week, the number of hours worked each day during such week shall be computed on the basis of six-minute units. In the determination of the number of hours worked in any week by any stock player, for the purpose of computing the weekly overtime, if any, of such stock player, the actual work time of such stock player on Sunday shall be counted at the rate of one and one-half hours per hour. In the determination of the number of hours worked in any week by any player of any of the classes hereinbefore in this paragraph referred to, for the purpose of computing the weekly overtime, if any, of such player, there shall be excluded all time during such week with respect to which any daily overtime compensation shall be payable to such player. All overtime accruing hereunder to any free lance player, stock player or contract player shall be payable not later than the studio pay day of the calendar week next following the expiration of the player's week in which such overtime accrues. Any failure through error to pay all or any part of any overtime compensation shall give the player no right except to collect the amount so unpaid. For the purpose of applying the foregoing provisions of this paragraph, it is agreed as follows: one hour's pay on the basis of straight time shall be l/48th of the base weekly salary, one hour's pay on the basis of time and one-half shall be l/32nd of the base weekly salary and one hour's pay on the basis of double time shall be l/24th of the base weekly salary. Fifteen minutes pay on the basis of straight time shall be l/92nd of the base weekly salary. The provisions of subdivision IV of subparagraph (c) of paragrraph 6 of the Basic Agreement are hereby stricken and deleted therefrom and shall have no further force or effect whatsoever. Where a free lance contract is executed before the effective date of this agreement but continues after such effective date, the free lance player shall receive overtime pay on the basis of this agreement after such effective date instead of the overtime pay now provided for, if any. 5. Except as hereinafter otherwise expressly provided, day players shall receive pay on the basis of time and one-half instead of straight time for Sunday work, and for work on New Year's Day, Decoration Day, July Fourth, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day or Christmas, except that this increase shall not apply to Sunday work on an overnight location of the type described in the first clause of the second sentence of II of paragraph 7(m) hereof. Except as hereinafter otherwise expressly provided, day players receiving $200.00 per day or less shall receive pay for overtime on the basis of time and one-half instead of straight time, except that with respect to any Sunday or holiday as to which any such day player is entitled to time and one-half, pay for overtime shall be computed on the same basis as during the first eight hours, i. e. the player will not receive time and one-half on time and one-half. Overtime pay for day players shall be computed on the basis of one-hour units, except that to the extent overtime is caused by travel time from location, it shall be computed on the basis of fifteen-minute units. To the extent that any overtime of any day player is caused by travel time (whether at the beginning, during or 732