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INDEXCabinet Office - "animation competition"
12 years, 3 months ago - Animate Projects
Last week, Arts Council England’s Jobs and News bulletin posted details of an animation competition being run by the Cabinet Office.
It’s tagged ‘unpaid, volunteer work’, with a line that “Cabinet Office states that this opportunity is exempt from the national minimum wage.”
You email them for a script, then submit then submit an expression of interest and a 30 second animation. And then a shortlisted group of applicants will be invited to produce a 3 min video.
The winner will “have their work submitted on a website with global reach and will receive a letter of recommendation.”
We dropped them a line, asking them to let us know why they think it's ok to expect animators to undertake this work for no payment and if they might reconsider their approach to this ‘opportunity’, so that animators receive payment for their work?
And they did get back to us. Our full letter and their reply are on our blog, along with quite a few, quite rightly angry, comments.
http://www.animationallianceuk.org/opportunity-not/
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12 years, 2 months ago - Daniel Cormack
Technically, this is correct.
If you are commissioning someone to make a film for you, they are not an employee or a worker and therefore not due the National Minimum Wage.
I can understand people volunteering for charities or to help someone out if the project seems particularly outstanding or has a special meaning to them, but government?
We already work for them enough with very little in return via the tax system.
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12 years, 3 months ago - Animate Projects
Arts Council England seems to have taken this down now..
Response from 12 years, 3 months ago - Animate Projects SHOW