Freelance workers 

This section provides general information on employment law. If you have specific questions, you should seek legal advice from a lawyer or trade union.

Charter signatories - includes the key guilds, unions and trade associations in the film sector.

Professional development and mentoring - explains how those with experience in the industry can develop their own skills and pass on their knowledge to a new generation.

Employment rights for freelance workers are more limited than for employees, but include:

• Not to be wrongfully dismissed
• Minimum wage
• To be accompanied in disciplinary and grievance hearings
• Working time protection
• Not to suffer unlawful deductions
• Not to have to make payments to employer
• Not to suffer a detriment for enforcing working time rights
• Not to suffer a detriment for making a protected disclosure
• Not to be less favourably treated on ground of fixed-term employment
• Protection from discrimination on grounds of sex, race, disability, religious belief and sexual orientation
• Equal pay

Visit these areas of the Employment Law section:

• Which workers are covered?
• Pay, including minimum wage
• Working time
• Discrimination law

For further sources of information, see Links.