The Hollywood Commission, a corporation that works collaboratively with 26 firms, unions and guilds, academies, and expertise businesses to finish harassment, discrimination, bullying and abuse within the leisure business– and WIF, a corporation working in direction of gender fairness within the display industries, collectively introduced in the present day that the WIF Assist Line will change into the Leisure Trade Helpline, and its operations might be transferred to the Hollywood Fee.
On this new chapter for the Helpline, the Fee’s complete sources for leisure employees will help the sustainability of this essential useful resource.
This comes on the heels of the Hollywood Fee’s launch of MyConnext, an easy-to-use, safe, impartial, and nameless on-line useful resource and reporting instrument for leisure business employees to confront office misconduct. One of many options of MyConnext is the Ombuds, a human voice that may assist information employees from collaborating organizations by means of the positioning and provides common details about how reporting works. Alongside this service, the helpline—open to each leisure business employee—will play an equally very important function.
“The Leisure Trade Assist Line is a essential a part of our ecosystem, filling a spot for a few of the business’s most susceptible employees,” stated Malia Arrington, government director of the Hollywood Fee. “It’s a vitally vital impartial voice, offering steering to all business employees on a spread of questions, from understanding choices to discovering the correct help. As a part of making the Helpline accessible to all employees, it should even be an vital element of Respect on Set. As well as, alongside the options of the MyConnext platform, this asset will change into a essential supply for employees throughout the business. We’re proud to proceed our work alongside our pals at WIF towards an leisure business that could be a safer, extra equitable place for all.”
“After we began the Assist Line in 2017, it was clear that the business wanted this useful resource and nobody else was doing it,” stated WIF Chief Govt Officer Kirsten Schaffer. “After almost seven years and an expanded mandate, the time is correct to move the baton. The Hollywood Fee – with its broad base of help from the business’s largest firms – is the correct house for a helpline that’s open to all employees who expertise bullying, harassment, discrimination, or abuse.”
With the Leisure Trade Helpline beneath its operational umbrella, the Hollywood Fee will embrace it in Respect on Set, its suite of companies that can supply producers a code of conduct, schooling sources, and a third-party reporting construction – measures of employee safety which might be typically unavailable on impartial productions.
WIF will proceed to help the Leisure Trade Helpline and its ongoing companies, together with authorized and counseling sources for anybody who has skilled harassment, abuse, or discrimination whereas working within the leisure business. This new collaboration between WIF and the Hollywood Fee marks an alliance in advancing a regular tradition of security in Hollywood. Providers offered by the Leisure Trade Helpline will stay the identical, and anybody concerned about setting an appointment or calling can discover data at Hollywood Commission.
The Assist Line was initially created by WIF in December 2017 in response to the shortage of sources for individuals who expertise harassment or abuse on set or in different leisure workplaces. In 2022, it expanded to supply help and sources to those that have skilled any type of discrimination, harassment, or abuse whereas working within the leisure business. In July of 2023, WIF started providing sources and help for strike-affected employees by means of the Assist Line.
