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CAA Gives Pay Raises to Assistants and Other Hourly

Talent Agency CAA has raised pay charges for assistants and different hourly workers, a person with data of the matter informed TheWrap on Wednesday.

Assistants — a selected job title at CAA — will now make $18 an hour, up from $15, the person stated. New hourly charges for different workers weren’t disclosed.

The pay hikes come as a part of CAA’s efforts to set compensation for workers and plans to enact them preceded the latest uproar over how a lot entry degree and assistant degree jobs in Hollywood pay popularized by the hashtag #PayUpHollywood, the person stated. The effort is “ongoing,” based on the person.

Also Read: #PayUpHollywood Survey: Majority of Assistants Take Home $500-$900 in Weekly Pay

Other companies have lately additionally hiked pay for hourly staff, most lately Verve Talent and Literary Agency, which introduced in December that it gave assistants and mailroom employees a 25 to 40 % increase in response to the #PayUpHollywood motion. The pay raises took impact Jan. 1.

Verve mailroom employees will now make $17.50 an hour, assistants will make $18.50, and “experienced assistants” will make $20, the corporate introduced on the time. At least 30 assistants and a pool of 10 mailroom/floater workers are affected.

Verve additionally shortened its working hours primarily based on survey responses. Instead of working from 8:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., the corporate additionally introduced new hours, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.; workers working outdoors of these hours will nonetheless proceed to obtain additional time pay.

Lawrence Yee contributed to this report.

The Last 14 Oscar Hosts Ranked From Worst to Best (Photos)

While the 2020 Academy Awards may go and not using a host, similar to the 2019 model, TheWrap appears again at the most effective Oscars hosts, from Anne Hathaway to Jimmy Kimmel.
14. James Franco & Anne Hathaway (2011)

He was practically comatose; she overcompensated by being mind-numbingly perky. And a pairing that didn’t make plenty of sense on paper ended up making no sense in any respect on stage.

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13. Seth MacFarlane (2013)
It’s not a good suggestion to start out your Oscar present with a prolonged bit about what a horrible host you is likely to be. But MacFarlane did simply that, taking part in down his swankiness, taking part in up his smuttiness (“Show Us Your Boobs!”) and setting precisely the fallacious tone for the large evening.

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12. Neil Patrick Harris (2015)

Harris has the ability set to be an important host, because the Tonys and Emmys have proven. But NPH saved his worst internet hosting job for his largest gig, perhaps as a result of the present had no thought find out how to play to his strengths. And hey, there have been some actually spectacular sleight of hand magic tips on the finish of the evening — however after a three-hour build-up, no one cared.

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11. Hostless Oscars

In 2019, the Oscars ceremony went forward with no host, after Kevin Hart stepped down from the function after previous homophobic tweets of his resurfaced. The no-host awards present really labored, to the purpose the place the Academy determined to do it once more. But regardless that a hostless present may be completely acceptable, it will probably’t assist however miss the persona and continuity that an emcee supplies.

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10. David Letterman (1995)

You need to really feel dangerous for Letterman, who adopted his idol Johnny Carson onto the Oscar stage however didn’t adapt to the job the best way Carson had. Some of his stuff was really fairly humorous, however his Oscarized model of the “Late Show” was a foul match, and you might inform that he knew it.

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