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Research on the professional practice of digital cultural artists and creators and appropriate working conditions

4 March 2024

Design: Grafisch Geluk

As an independent artist or creator in digital culture, you will engage in a diverse and interdisciplinary sub-sector, with a practice between art and technology, and with work ranging from concept to final product. Presentations of your work may take place at events, exhibitions or as interactive programs. Because of the interdisciplinary nature of the work and the different roles you often take in the process, from technical producer to performer, the digital culture sector is complex.

What does your professional practice look like? What fees do you receive in return for your work? What are your sources of income? Answers to these questions help us form a full picture of the current working conditions within the digital culture sector. And to make an inventory of which working conditions are appropriate and desired. We therefore encourage you to this questionnaire* to complete.

The questionnaire is an initiative of the Digital Culture chain table of the fairPACCT program. Through this chain table, digital culture professionals are working together on fair pay and fair practice for workers in this sub-sector. For example, the chain table is currently compiling a Fair Practice Guide, which outlines what factors to consider when composing or negotiating your rates. Among other things, the results of this survey are serving as input for the development of this Fair Practice Guide.

This questionnaire:

  • is anonymous (and we handle the results with care)
  • It is best to fill in on your laptop
  • takes fifteen minutes to complete
  • can be completed until Monday, March 25 (note: this was previously March 18)

We thank you very much in advance for your cooperation!

Click here to complete the Dutch version of the survey.

Click here to go to the English version of the survey.

* Please note that this questionnaire is intended for all artists and creators based in the Netherlands within the digital culture sector, who work independently. Digital culture has the following subdisciplines: Art-Science, Audiovisual, Biohacking, Coding, Databases, Digital Fabrication, Digital storytelling, Games, Hacking, Interactive Art, Online Media, Performance, Postdigital and Product Development.

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New chain table Film festivals launched

19 February 2024

Photo: fairPACCT

On Feb. 2, the new chain table Film Festivals was launched. The intention is to quickly create concrete fair pay practice tools for this category of organizations. Starting with a salary structure and a regulation for fringe benefits including a guideline for safe and healthy working. It also involves the determination of a zzp premium rate.

Funding of film festivals

There are about 115 film festivals in our country. Four of them are subsidized on a multi-year basis by OCW. The Film Fund provides two (by 2025, seven) multi-year and ten project grants. The other film festivals depend on municipalities, provinces and others for their finances. Seven larger film festivals are considered fair pay initiators. Together they have engaged Bureau Berenschot. A benchmark with a number of collective bargaining agreements was done in 2023, considering functions and remuneration. The employment conditions policy was also examined. The whole was completed with an opinion, particularly on salaries, workload reduction and development opportunities.

Composition of the chain table

The chain table will now start working on the elaboration of Bureau Berenschot’s advisory report. Representatives of Cinekid, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam/IDFA, Nederlands Film Festival/NFF and Kaboom Animation Festival are connected. Partly at the suggestion of the Creative Coalition, workers from other film festivals are also affiliated. The Kunstenbond also participates. Doreen Boonekamp is chairman: relevant in connection with the coordination with the chain table Film/AV, of which she is also chairman.

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Chain table Pop musicians at ESNS24: what are the possibilities for structural funding of fair pay for pop musicians?

19 February 2024

Photo: Ronnie Zeemering

Once again this year, on Jan. 19, the chain table Popmusicians attended Eurosonic Noorderslag (ESNS). In the panel ‘Fair pay at VNPF venues, the next step’, fairPACCT program manager Noud van de Rhee, Jolanda Beyer of Patronaat, Rita Zipora of BAM! Pop Authors, Pien Feith of Friendly Fire led by Bastiaan Vinkenburg (Berenschot) to discuss the search for structural means to enable fair pay for pop musicians.

Exploration of additional revenue sources

Last year, at ESNS23, the Pop Musicians Chain Table presented another analysis of the income gap between current fees and an appropriate and fair fee for pop musicians. This analysis showed that € 7.8 million more per year is needed to realize fair pay for pop musicians affiliated with VNPF venues. The analysis and accompanying report, De kloof tussen inzet en inkomsten van popmuzikanten, were carried out by consultancy firm Berenschot. This fee table, which is part of the advisory report, shows what fair pay fees mean. After this, it was up to the chain table to answer the following question: how can this € 7.8 million be structurally financed? And: who will pay for this € 7.8 million structurally? The subsequent exploration of additional sources of income was outlined at ESNS24. The possibilities for gifts, the National Stage Plan and a surcharge on tickets through service charges were explored. The budgets of private funds, municipalities and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science were also scrutinized. The question ‘How can this € 7.8 million be financed structurally?’ remains unanswered for the time being, but the Pop Musicians Chain Table is determined to continue the exploration.

Plans for test phase Calculator Tool Pop Musicians

In addition to the results of the exploration, the Pop Musicians chain table also presented the Pop Musicians Calculation Tool. With the Pop Musicians Calculation Tool, 11 objective criteria can be used to determine to which career stage an artist or act belongs: starting, upcoming, developing, mid-career, arrived. Based on the relevant career stage an artist or act is in, the tool indicates the minimum fee for a live performance on stage. The Pop Musicians Calculation Tool is ready and already in use! The aim of the chain table is to start a trial period in which the calculation tool is applied by pop venues; the Fair Pop Pilot. In this way, not only workers, but also workers, will learn to use the calculation tool in practice and various administrative aspects can be tested. An important step in the implementation.

Read more about the Fair Pop Pilot in the ESNS PowerPoint.

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Fair pay practice tools: Framework of concepts, Assignment Compass and ZZP start-up rates for Film/AV sector

22 January 2024

Design: Formfest, Graphic Happiness

Fair pay practice tools

In November 2023, fairPACCT’s Film/AV cultural production chain table submitted four fair pay proposals for consultation. Much useful feedback was received on these. The chain table participants are taking this on board to hone the proposals for application in practice. The chain table is currently presenting three (technical) practical instruments: a Framework of Terms, the Assignment Compass developed by Bureau Berenschot and a guideline for ZZP starting hourly rates. The Assignment Compass and an accompanying advisory guideline for ZZP start-up rates will be translated into manuals before the summer of 2024, for application in practice. The Assignment Compass will also be converted textually and in design into an accessible digital module. A fourth practical tool, Guideline for Safe and Healthy Work AV Sector, will be published in the first quarter of 2024.

First practical tool ‘Framework of terms for AV sector’ ready

The first tool ready is the AV Sector Framework of Terms version 1.0-20231221. This Framework of Terms is intended to provide commonly used terms in contract negotiations with a neutral definition. With the adjustments and additional terms added based on the consultation, the Framework of Terms now counts 333 general and legal terms.

FairPACCT Chain Table Film/AV ‘Framework of terms AV sector version 1.0’ December 2023

Practical tool ‘Guideline for Safe and Healthy Work AV Sector’ in first quarter 2024

During the first quarter of 2024, the updated version 1.0 of the Guideline for Safe and Healthy Work in the AV Sector will also be published. The chain table participants are currently looking at ways in which extra points for documentary c.a. can already be included in this.

Handouts based on practice tools Assignment Compass and ZZP start-up rates by summer 2024

The chain table has also started, with the help of Martijn Arnoldus of Social Finance Matters, to translate the Assignment Compass developed by Bureau Berenschot and the advice for ZZP start-up rates linked to it. This should result in guidelines for application in practice before the summer of 2024. To this end, a survey will be conducted throughout the sector at the end of the first quarter. The objective is to gain further insight into subjects such as billability, (un)schedulability of work and reimbursed and non-reimbursed activities on the basis of a compact questionnaire for each department. More information will follow. See below the Assignment Compass and the guideline for ZZP start-up rates, to be supplemented later with handouts.

FairPACCT Chain Table Film/AV ‘Assignment Compass’ November 2023, Bureau Berenschot

FairPACCT Chain Table Film/AV ‘From wages to ZZP start-up rate’ October 2023, Bureau Berenschot

Structural social dialogue

In the coming months, the chain table participants will also discuss where and how the fair pay instruments for the AV sector can best be invested. This for the benefit of the so-called structural social dialogue. Attention will also be paid to an accessible and recognizable design of all instruments. The instruments will in any case be published on the Platform ACCT website at the fairPACCT program.

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Chain Table Pop Musicians presents future plans for fair pay on VNPF stages at ESNS 2024

15 January 2024

Photo: ESNS

Panel: Fair pay on VNPF stages, the next step

Panelists: Noud van de Rhee, Jolanda Beyer, Rita Zipora, Pien Feith, Bastiaan Vinkenburg

Location: Oosterpoort, small hall

Date: Jan. 19

Time: 3 p.m. – 4 p.m.

Language: Dutch

At Eurosonic Noorderslag (ESNS) 2023, the Pop Musicians Chain Table presented, after a year of mutual consultation, an analysis of the income gap between current wages and an appropriate and fair fee (fair pay) for pop musicians. Conclusion of the analysis: €7.8 million more is needed per year for fair pay. The analysis and accompanying report, The gap between commitment and income of pop musicians, were conducted by consulting firm Berenschot.

As an extension of this, the chain table presented the first draft version of a calculation tool, which can be used to determine, on the basis of five career stages, the minimum wage for a live performance on stage. The Pop Musicians Calculation Tool is now ready and in use! By means of 11 objective criteria it can be identified to which phase an act belongs.

The chain table is now considering structural funding and the system to ensure that extra fair pay resources actually reach the musician. In the panel ‘Fair pay on VNPF stages, the next step’, fairPACCT program manager Noud van de Rhee, Jolanda Beyer of Patronaat, Rita Zipora of BAM! Pop Authors, Pien Feith of Friendly Fire and Bastiaan Vinkenburg on behalf of Berenschot will discuss the developments so far, the plans for starting implementation in 2024 and the search for structural means to enable fair pay.

Get your tickets for ESNS 2024 here.

Want to know more about the chain table Pop Musicians? Read more here.

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Job handbook, final version of Standard Rules for Secondary Conditions of Employment and Guidelines for Starting Fees for Publishing Arts Organizations.

9 January 2024

Design: Formfest, Graphic Happiness

New and recalibrated fair pay practice tools

The chain table of literary organizations presented a Job Handbook and a Standard Regulation on fringe benefits in early December. Further research into the zzp rates included in the Standard Arrangement was to follow, given other chain tables and collective bargaining agreements. Meanwhile, these zzp rates have been increased and the recalibrated Standard Regulation on fringe benefits is available. These two fair pay practice tools are primarily intended for workers at literary festivals, events and literary-educational institutions.

After the public consultation of the past few weeks, the chain table can now present a third practice tool: the Guideline on Starting Rates for Performing Authors and (Spoken Word) Artists.

When asked, VLAM21, the umbrella organization of producing literary organizations, recently calculated the fair pay additional costs at €0.6 million per year. For the time being, the former State Secretary of OCW has allocated approximately € 0.3 million structurally to bridge this gap by 2025.

Practice tools:

AWVN i.c.w. FairPACCT Chain Table Literary Organizations fair pay practice tool 1: ‘Job manual producing literary organizations. Final version, November 2023.’

FairPACCT Chain Table Literature organizations fair pay practice tool 2:
‘Standard regulation of fringe benefits for producing literary organizations: literary festivals, manifestations and literary-educational institutions. Final Version, December 2023.’

FairPACCT Chain Table Literature Organizations fair pay practice tool 3: ‘Guideline Starting Rates Performing Authors and (Spoken Word) Artists. December 2023.

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Fair pay practice tools from six chain tables: starting now!

4 December 2023

Photo: Shutterstock

Ten fair pay proposals from six fairPACCT chain tables were in consultation and presented to stakeholders on Nov. 27. The reactions were positive, in one case the input led to a small technical change. So from now on these fair pay practice tools are concrete to use! That together with a number of studies on fees in the field and reference frameworks consisting of comparisons with collective agreements and guidelines in cultural and other adjacent sectors.

The practice tools

The practical tools include guidelines with rates and studies/products focused on primary and secondary working conditions. Where necessary, there are or will be additional tools or guidelines geared to the specific work situations of certain categories of workers. See below an overview of the practical instruments per chain table.

The chain tables’ practical tools complement the Nov. 16 national study “Fair Pay Closer” commissioned by Arts ’92 and supported by OCW funding, which took 2022 as the benchmark year for collective bargaining agreements and other pay guidelines.

Many sub-desk fair pay conditions have been open since last Friday, Dec. 1. The fair pay practice tools and surveys from the chain tables can be consulted here. More information follows at the bottom of this news release.

Chain Table Arts Professionals in Cultural Education and Amateur Arts

The Arts Professionals in Cultural Education and Amateur Arts chain table of fairPACCT hereby presents the “Fee Tool Guide. It contains 13 types of main activities and is intended for self-employed workers in this cultural subsector and their clients, for whom no collective bargaining agreement applies. The handbook has a separate excel file with financial background data and an appendix with tables provided with advisory rates with zzp surcharge and surcharge for additional work.

Click here to read more about the practice tools from the Arts Professionals in Cultural Education and Amateur Arts chain table.

Literary organizations chain table

The Chain Table of Literary Organizations c.s. hereby presents a Job Handbook and a Standard Regulations on Fringe Benefits. These are primarily intended for those working at literary festivals, events and literary-educational institutions.

Click here to read more about the Chain Table Literature Organizations practice tools.

Archaeology chain table

The Chain Table Archaeology c.s. hereby presents an unofficial Job Classification and a Standard Regulation on Secondary Employment Conditions. In this Job House, based on a specific Labor Monitor and additional in-depth research at companies and governments, there are five main categories, each with three job types. These are provided with the current remunerations. A Standard Scheme was also drawn up on the basis of a detailed comparison with four existing adjoining collective agreements and a revoked archaeological collective agreement.

Click here to read more about the Chain Table Archaeology practice tools.

Chain Table Pop Musicians

The chain table Pop Musicians maintains the fair pay gage levels for performing musicians as contained in the January 2023 report “The gap between commitment and earnings of pop musicians. The report distinguishes five career stages, each with its own gage level: 0/Starting up, 1/Upcoming, 2/Developing, 3/Mid-career, 4/Arrived. The online calculation tool that was developed has 11 objective criteria that can be used to determine which phase an artist/act should be considered to belong to and the corresponding wages.

Click here to read more about the Chain Table Pop Musicians practice tools.

Chain Table Freelance Classical Musicians

The Chain Table Freelance Classical Musicians hereby presents the ‘Final Report on Starting Rates. Outcomes instrument development fair practice for freelance classical musicians’. The report includes an online fee tool so that musicians can calculate their fees for performances without a collective bargaining agreement. The final report distinguishes seven professional practices. Starting point is a professional at HBO level.

Click here to read more about the Freelance Classical Musicians chain table practice tools.

Culture Marketing and Communications chain table

The Culture Marketing and Communications chain table presents practice tools at these three fair pay. It involves a Manifesto on the value of cultural marketers and a Whitepaper with seven related practical examples. It also concerns a comparison of the remuneration for five types of MarCom positions in various cultural collective bargaining agreements with those in the BV Nederland. Two specific foundations have been made: a reference framework plus a study of project criteria for costs of marketing and communication by funds and governments.

Click here to read more about the Culture Marketing and Communications chain table’s practice tools.

Many subsidy counters with fair pay conditions open since Dec. 1

We point out that the use of the practice tools by the field is relevant. After all, the counters for multi-year grants from the State Secretary of OCW plus various state cultural funds and municipalities have been open since last Friday, Dec. 1. At the state level, fair pay is a condition in the grant schemes. Institutions must subscribe to the Fair Practice Code and indicate how they comply with it. Below are some of the provisions:

– If an OCW-funded institution has not joined collective agreements on fees, such as collective bargaining agreements or fee guidelines, by January 1, 2025, its grant may be revoked.

– At the Performing Arts Fund, all applicants must have a remuneration policy with their grant application that refers to a (related) collective agreement or guideline and they must make their remuneration policy public.

– Applicants to the Cultural Participation Fund must show that the fee is fair pay. This can be done by demonstrating alignment with existing collective agreements on fees, such as the most obvious collective bargaining agreement and/or social dialogue between employers or principals and employees or contractors.

– The Mondriaan Fund requires applicant mainstream (visual) art venues to have an active and implemented policy, given the Fair Practice Code. Broad-based institutions must also have a roadmap with points for improvement. For starting organizations, they must endorse the Code, apply it to the best of their ability and formulate ambitions for the next 2 years. Furthermore, there is the regulation on artists’ fees to stimulate fair pay at visual art institutions.

– One of these days, the Literature Fund will present its multi-year grant schemes for literary festivals/manifestations and literary-educational organizations. The same goes for the Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie, which has collaborated with fairPACCT on fair pay. The Film Fund works purely with project grants, but it encourages, on the basis of chain table practice tools, comparative in-depth research into previous budgets and settlements plus chain table handouts by subject area, that applicants act fair pay starting in 2025.

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Third fair pay chain table proposal for literary organizations: respond by Tuesday, Dec. 19!

1 December 2023

Design: Grafisch Geluk

Guideline Starting Rates

FairPACCT’s chain table of literary organizations hereby presents its third fair pay proposal. It requests a response from all stakeholders by Tuesday, December 19 next. So that this practice tool can also be finalized by the chain table before the end of 2023 and provided with feedback to the field. When responding, please use the input form below. The third fair pay proposal concerns the final report “Guideline Starting Rates for Performing Authors and (Spoken Word) Artists. Exploration, Calculation Model and Checklist for Literary Festivals, Events and Literary Educational Institutions.’ Along with an excel calculation tool accompanying the Guideline.

Click here to see the two fair pay practice tools already adopted – the Job Handbook and the Standard Regulations on Secondary Conditions of Employment for Producing Arts Organizations. This also highlights the chain table’s financial fair pay letter to the Secretary of State and the Literary Fund dated Nov. 22. Plus the additional activities including the envisioned Phase 2 of the Chain Table Literary Organizations.

For consultation:

HTH/PPMC i.c.w. Chain Table Literature Organizations: ‘Final Report. Guidelines Starting Rates for Performing Authors and (Spoken Word) Artists. Exploration, calculation model and checklist for literary festivals, events and literary educational institutions. November 2023.’

HTH/PPMC i.c.w. Chain Table Literature Organizations: ‘Excel Calculation Tool to Guideline Starting Rates for Performing Authors and (Spoken Word) Artists. November 2023.’

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Fair pay practice tools: Job handbook and Standard Regulation on secondary conditions of employment for producing literary organizations

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Fair pay practice tools: Manifesto, Whitepaper and comparison of five job levels professionals culture marketing and communications

1 December 2023

Design: Formfest, Graphic Happiness

Fair pay practice tools

The Culture Marketing and Communication chain table of fairPACCT is presenting three fair pay practice tools at this event. These include a Manifesto on the value of cultural marketers and a Whitepaper with seven related practical examples. It also concerns a comparison of the remuneration for five types of MarCom positions in various cultural collective bargaining agreements with those in the BV Nederland. These positions are: head, coordinator/advisor, employee (all-round), specialist, creator. Two specific underpinnings were created. A reference framework with job titles and classifications in existing cultural and some adjacent collective bargaining agreements/guidelines. Plus a study of project criteria for costs of marketing and communication by funds and governments. After all, too often these costs are considered overhead that can be quickly swept away, while they are essential. So the chain table motto in the Manifesto is, “Without cultural marketers, no audience. Without audiences, no culture.’

Practice tools:

FairPACCT Chain Table Culture Marketing and Communications Manifesto ‘Manifesto. Without culture marketers no audience. Without audiences no culture. October 2023.’

FairPACCT Chain Table Culture Marketing and Communications Whitepaper ‘Whitepaper. From manifesto to reality. Seven powerful case studies on the impact of marketing and communications. October 2023.’

FairPACCT Chain Table Culture Marketing and Communication Fee comparison in cultural sector with BV Nederland ‘Five job levels in culture marketing and communications. ‘First comparison between the BV Nederland and the cultural sector. September 2023.’

Specific coasters:

SFM Research: Fair pay assignment work Marketing and Communications cultural sector, Reference Framework for Collective Bargaining Agreements, Dec. 2022

SFM Research: Cost of Marketing and Communication Cultural Sector, Project Criteria by Funds and Governments, Apr. 2023

Review of consultation

The consultation did not result in any changes to the fair pay proposals. With that, they became final practice tools of the chain table in November 2023.

Looking ahead to additional activities

The chain table wants a job evaluation agency to create an official overview of jobs in culture marketing and communications. With descriptions, valuations and gradings. This is in addition to its own overview with existing designations and evaluations of five functions. It is important that this agency weighs the talents of the employees in addition to the usual criteria such as ‘ability and ability’. Furthermore, these must be functions with contemporary designations and a current content in view of the major changes in society and in the manner of (mutual) reporting. Furthermore, the chain table is working on a communication and implementation plan given the three fair pay practice instruments it has already developed. Governments, funds, work providers and others must, in its view, become more aware of the substantive and financial values of the workers/self-employed in marketing and communication. Especially the network organization Cultuurmarketing is an important national partner in this.

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Fair pay practice tools: Starting Rates and Calculation Tool for Performing Freelance Classical Musicians in Seven Professional Practices

1 December 2023

Design: Formfest, Graphic Happiness

Fair pay practice tools

The Chain Table Freelance Classical Musicians hereby presents the ‘Final Report on Starting Rates. Outcomes instrument development fair practice for freelance classical musicians’. An online fee tool is included so that musicians can calculate their fees for performances without a collective agreement themselves, using the criteria in the report. The final report distinguishes seven professional practices. These are: orchestra or choir, more than 16 persons; ensemble or choir, between 8 and 16 persons; chamber music, 8 persons or less; accompaniment of choir or soloist in orchestral form; soloist with choir or orchestra; soloist or duo; studio recordings. Starting point is a professional at the college level. Therefore, the hourly rate including self-employment percentage is always the same. The distinction in the rates per professional practice is then related to aspects such as: education; nature of the work; experience; complexity of the production; size of the assignment, registration/release. In order to arrive at fair rates, a survey of workers was conducted in advance with the help of independent researchers and a comparison with 13 adjacent collective bargaining agreements was made in the final report.

Practice tools:

KNYFE i.c.w. Chain Table Freelance Classical Musicians fair pay practice tool 1:
‘Final Report on Starting Rates. ‘Outcomes instrument development fair practice for freelance classical musicians. Final version, November 2023.’

KNYFE i.c.w. Chain Table Freelance Classical Musicians fair pay practice tool 2:
‘Online Calculator tool fair pay for freelance classical musicians. Final Version, November 2023’.

Review of consultation

The comments received were positive and did not result in any changes to the drafts of the starting rates and the associated online calculation tool. One response pointed to affordability. Another response asked whether sufficient research has been done on the income gap for instrumentalists and choral singers who do not work in ensembles. In response, preliminary research was done by HTH on 127 freelance classical musicians in various professional practices, among others. In this, no remarkable differences were reported. Subsequently, Berenschot and KNYFE retrieved data from a total of another 65 respondents. The problem of the current low fees in relation to the hours spent on performances by musicians is mainly related to the large number of uncompensated hours. The final report shows this clearly.

Looking ahead to additional activities

The final report notes that little data is available on the number of freelance classical musicians and the amount of performances they provide. From the sources that do exist, it can be distilled that there are at least 1,000 musicians and over 14,700 activities. The macro income gap ranges from €4 million annually in a conservative estimate to €42 million. Regarding the micro income gap, it can be observed that the recommended starting rate in the examples among the seven professional practices ranges from 17% to 110% on top of the current fee. It should also be noted here that the part of the sector studied for which there are no collective bargaining agreements is mostly not subsidized or is no longer subsidized by governments after cuts.

All this led to a specific offer letter from the chain table in October at the time of the consultation with further interpretation and context. In it, the chain table participants recognize and acknowledge the outcomes of the final report and the tools provided by KNYFE in its brief. It sees its concerns about too little fair pay confirmed and attaches importance to making clear to third parties that there are also major concerns in the implementation, assurance and especially affordability of the developed standards. The letter is also a call to the industry to provide inspiring responses and examples.

Finally, the following can be reported. In the final phase of the instrument development for fair practice on behalf of freelance classical musicians, there has already been positive technical contact between the chain table and the Dutch Association for Performing Arts in relation to the Collective Agreement for Music Ensembles. FairPACCT, in consultation with the chain table, now wants to approach the diverse group of work providers with further explanation of the fair pay starting rates in the final final report. New financial (subsidy) opportunities can also be sought with other national partners.

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