*
represents overtime payment beyond the first 1/2
hour. The first 1/2 hour is at straight time.
RULES
No
Recording is Permitted Without the Use of a Valid AFM
Recording Agreement
All
Sessions AFM-EP Fund Contribution 10% of Gross Scale (including
overtime and doubling)
No
Cancellations less than seven (7) days prior to the date
of the session
Health
and Welfare
19.00 per
musician for the first original service and
15.50 for each additional service that day
Arrangers/Orchestrators/Copyist
- 19.00 per service and 15.50 for each additional
additional that day
Leaders
and/or Contractors:
1.
Sessions MUST
be reported in advance.
2.
Contracts
MUST be filled
in COMPLETELY.
3.
The leader
or contractor MUST, WITHIN
24 HOURS of the session, turn in a B-4
contract with the completed W-4's and I-9's
with backup, for all personnel to the company
and have the representative of the company accepting
the contract initial and date it to acknowledge
receipt of same. If the contract, W-4's and
I-9's are mailed to the company, they must be
sent by certified mail, and return receipt requested.
DOUBLE
SCALE
for the following holidays
In the United
States:
In Canada:
New
Year's Day, Labor Day, President's Day, Thanksgiving
Day, Memorial Day, Christmas Day, Independence
Day
New
Year's Day, Dominion Day, Good Friday, Labour
Day, Easter Monday, Thanksgiving, Victoria Day,
Christmas Day
PREMIUM RATES
One and
one half times the basic session and overtime
rates shall be paid on all recordings which
occur during the following times:
1.
Between Midnight and 8:00 a.m.
2.
After 1:00 p.m. on Saturdays if it is
the 6th consecutive day of work for the
company
3.
On Sundays
LOW-BUDGET
PHONO
The session must be reported
in advance and prior approval of the Federation is
required before these rates and conditions can be
utilized.
The budget cap for these recordings
is $99,000 per complete album. These amounts are exclusive
of artist and producer advances and travel expenses
of artist and producer but include all other production
costs as customarily understood by the industry.
"Concept pieces" and
"choral works" for publication budgeted
at $40,000 or less will utilize the Limited Pressing
Agreement and be exempt from obligations to the Phono
SPF and MPTF.
