Ensuring that payment is made to models and creatives within 45 days is one objective of the legislation.
New protections would also be created to prevent retaliation, which is something “that so many models have experienced,” said Hoylman, who thanked the models in attendance for speaking out publicly. “You’re doing it with some risk without this legislation.”
The Fashion Workers Act would require management agencies to act in the best interests of their talent, pay models and creatives within 45 days, provide them with copies of contracts and agreements, register and deposit a surety bond of $50,000 with New York State, conduct reasonable inquiries regarding health and safety on set and notify former models and creatives if management collects royalties from a talent they no longer represent.
Introducing herself as “a well-respected model with a career spanning almost 25 years,” Elson said throughout that time it has been “an ongoing battle” to try to get financial transparency fromand to get paid in a reasonable amount of time. Sometimes models and creatives have to wait for up to a year to get paid and “then receive a mere fraction of what they thought they would receive,” Elson said.
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