Fair pay chain table proposals for literary organizations: respond now!
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The chain table of literary organizations of fairPACCT is hereby presenting two fair pay proposals and asking for a response from all stakeholders: preferably by Wednesday, November 1, 2023 and no later than Wednesday, November 15. Please use the fill-in form below. These are a Job Handbook and a Standard Regulations on Fringe Benefits. These are intended primarily for literary festivals, events and literary-educational institutions. Feedback by fairPACCT and the chain table based on the responses received will be done by December 1.
Job Manual
The chain table has chosen to graft the primary terms of employment onto the adjoining CLA for Theatre and Dance including the accompanying Job Handbook. This was created by the AWVN agency in relation to the national ORBA job classification model. The Nederlandse Associatie voor Podiumkunsten/NAPK, following input from the Kunstenbond, gave permission to the Chain Table to work with AWVN to convert this into a Job Manual including grading for literary festivals, manifestations and literary-educational institutions. The Chain Table immediately reported generally useful reference functions to this agency at the start.
For consultation:
Standard fringe benefit plan
For the benefit of the fringe benefits, the first step was to identify the statutory provisions. The chain table also made a detailed comparison with the provisions in the collective labor agreement for theater and dance and in the collective labor agreement for municipalities. On this basis it has produced a Standard Regulation, which contains general recommendations to all organizations in this sub-sector as well as considerations for individual assessment per organization.
For consultation:
Guideline starting rates for performing authors/artists in the works
The chain table is still working on a rate guideline. There is a draft report “Guideline Starting Rates for Performing Authors. Exploration, Calculation Model and Checklist for Literary Festivals, Events and Literary Educational Institutions.’ from the agencies HTH/PPMC. The chain table is currently doing further research for detailing. It hopes to finish this around November 1: so the public reaction to it will start only from that date. Further notice will follow.
Financial position of organizations involved
For the literary festivals, events and literary-educational institutions, one organization receives a BIS subsidy from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and 13 others receive a multiyear subsidy from the Literature Fund. The government has promised fair pay compensation. The organizations involved are often small and have little budgetary leeway. They often also, and sometimes even purely, receive grant money from municipalities in particular: in order to actually make fair pay possible, the other authorities will therefore have to be prepared to also make an extra financial contribution to their additional costs.
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Download the entry form here*:
* Please e-mail the completion form back to fairpacct@platformacct.nl preferably by Nov. 1 and no later than Nov. 15.
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Read on about what preceded:
Brief history
After an exploration, the Council for Culture and the Social and Economic Council released the advisory report “Passion Valued” in 2017. The earning potential of workers in the cultural and creative sector lags behind, they noted. The councils called for the development of guidelines for reasonable compensation. Based on this, a Labor Market Agenda appeared in 2017 with three spearheads: structural social dialogue, strengthening earning capacity, improving working conditions. Also, the Fair Practice Code emerged with three principles: fair pay, fair share, fair chain.
Specific preliminary research
Letters is one of the five subsectors where the fair pay situation is most worrisome and for which specific preliminary studies for improvement have been done. Bureau HTH did so on behalf of the VLAM21 partnership in February 2022. It contains the following observations in “Fair Pay at Literary Organizations. A survey of sixteen organizations for literary events and activities’. They are generally small institutions, one is in the BIS and thirteen others receive subsidies from the Literature Fund and others. There is no sector-specific collective bargaining agreement. The ‘permanent staff’ always comes last in terms of payment and authors/artists, who have few complaints, first. HTH makes some proposals for better working conditions and advocates a rate guideline for performing authors et al.
Composition of chain table
VLAM21 asked fairPACCT to develop the preliminary research with the help of a Chain Table from the field. The table began in July 2022 and consists of 13 participants: a number of literary festivals, manifestations and literary-educational institutions, the Arts Union and the Authors’ Union, as well as the Reading Foundation and the Writers’ Center, when asked, have joined in. Sylvia Dornseiffer, previously director of the Literature Fund, among others, is independent chair.
Comparison with adjacent sectors
On the advice of the Council for Culture and the State Secretary of OCW, the chain table first made a comparison with adjacent sectors. To this end, HTH had already identified six collective bargaining agreements in its preliminary study, including those of the central government and municipalities, as a point of orientation for subsidizers. The chain table focused in particular on the Cao for Theatre and Dance. Also explicitly discussed was the (in 2023 updated) Job and Wage Guideline of the Presentation Institutions Visual Arts. Furthermore, the fringe benefits of the Collective Bargaining Agreement for Municipalities were studied in more detail.
Learn more
Completion form (You can e-mail the completion form back preferably before November 1 and no later than November 15 to fairpacct@platformacct.nl)
FairPACCT chain table Literature organizations (read more under the heading ‘current’ or ‘about the table’)
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