Working Terms and Conditions

Equity is committed to raising awareness of everyone’s right to a respectful workplace and to promote zero tolerance for acts of inappropriate behaviour in the workplace.

Collectives are required to have a Respectful Workplace Policy that must be shared with all participants in the Collective. The policy should affirm the Collective’s commitment to maintaining a respectful workplace, as well as clear procedures for reporting and investigating allegations of unprofessional conduct or inappropriate behaviour.

Equity members working under the ACP must elect a Liaison to represent the Equity members of the collective in matters related to the activity/production. The Collective must inform Equity of who is elected as the Liaison.

The Liaison Election and Liaison Report forms are available in your myEquity account.

For more information about the role and responsibilities of a Liaison, consult the Artist Toolkit section.

The Collective must be committed to ensuring an inclusive work environment without racial and cultural discrimination or misrepresentation. To that end, where a production deals with identity-specific content, or characters outside the lived experience of the creative team, the Collective is encouraged to consult with appropriately knowledgeable Elders or individuals from those cultures or communities to ensure informed and respectful choices are made relating to representation (including hair, makeup, wardrobe or use of culturally- or identity-specific items in the production).

Such consultation should be conducted with sufficient lead time to enable useful integration of any learning into pre-production, rehearsal and production.

Working conditions on an ACP should be consistent with regular Equity standards. Equity members must not rehearse or perform in any venue (traditional, site-specific or non-traditional) that is not deemed to be safe and sanitary.

Equity advises participants to limit work hours in a week to a maximum of 42, including rest breaks, meal breaks and overnight rest periods appropriate to the production. Participants in the Collective are advised to agree to a preliminary schedule, prior to the beginning of rehearsals.

Audio and visual recordings and still images may be used for archival, publicity, or promotional purposes. Any further use of recordings is prohibited without the written permission of Equity, and subject to any conditions which Equity may require for such usage.

The Collective is responsible for the control and use of all recorded material and must use best efforts to ensure that the material cannot be copied or downloaded.

Collective members must be given 24 hours notice prior to any recording. No artist is obligated to participate. A recording must be made during regular rehearsal or performance hours.

No participant in the Collective may be required to make a nude recording.

Outside of cosmetic changes, a participant in the Collective must approve a recording in which their image has been altered, or placed in a context unrelated to the original use.

• Publicity
  A maximum of 10 minutes of performance or rehearsal may be presented on a current affairs program during the current run of an artistic activity/production or on the collective’s website or on a current affairs website. Production photographs may be taken and used for publicity for the same time period.
• Promotional and Archival Recordings
  The Collective may make a recording of actual performance or rehearsal for the express purpose of demonstrating the nature of its work, and the work of the collective members for promotion to potential sponsors, funders, donors and performance presenters.
  There may be no broadcast, including on the Internet, of a promotional recording. The names of all Artists in the artistic activity/production must appear in the recording.
• Use of Recordings by an Artist
  With the consent of all participants in the Collective, an individual participant may use recorded material for their own individual souvenir or personal use.