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 each buy-in 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 late hours, 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-area 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.