Union & Non-Union Talent Management

Here is how this works in practice. French entertainment employment runs on a regime found nowhere else in the world — the intermittent du spectacle framework. This gives performers and technicians a hybrid employment status with specific eligibility hours, input rules and unemployment-insurance protections administered through Pole emploi. Productions hiring talent in Paris, on regional shoots through Lyon and Marseille, or across the Nouvelle-Aquitaine production hubs need contracts, declarations préalables a l'embauche and pay structures that satisfy this regime. Our team handles contract drafting under the conventions collectives covering cinema and audiovisual production, manages the Audiens social-protection inputs every engagement triggers, and runs payroll through accredited intermediaries familiar with the URSSAF reporting cycle.

Here is the short of it. Union relations sit on top of the statutory framework. The SPIAC-CGT represents technicians and the Syndicat Francais des Artistes-interpretes covers performers. With active local sections that monitor rate observance and working conditions on set. We negotiate with union representatives directly, make sure overtime, weekly rest and meal-break provisions are observed, and document compliance for any post-shoot audit. Where global co-productions sit alongside French employment, we map the interface with foreign collective agreements so a US or UK actor's home-territory obligations do not collide with French employer duties. The result is a clean compliance trail, zero labour disputes and a workforce that turns up on day one ready to deliver.