Union & Non-Union Talent Management

Here is how this works in practice. Our union and talent-management team handles the Portuguese collective-bargaining landscape — STE (Sindicato dos Trabalhadores de Espectáculos) for performers, technicians, and broadcast workers. APR (Associação Portuguesa de Realizadores) for directors. AAPI (Associação dos Argumentistas Portugueses) for screenwriters. And the wider Código do Trabalho (Labor Code) framework ruling freelance contratos de prestação de serviços and Segurança Social sign-ups at 34 percent combined employer/employee input. Standard buy-in structures cover 40-hour working weeks, 22 days paid vacation, 13 public holidays, 11-hour daily rest minimums, and ACT (Autoridade para as Condições do Trabalho) labor-inspectorate audit compliance.

Here is the breakdown. Talent rate floors negotiate against STE published scales for performers, APR director scales, and AAPI writer fees, with late hours, meal-penalty, turnaround, and travel-day premiums all logged. Health-and-safety oversight flows through certified técnicos de segurança HST under Lei n.º 102/2009 on Occupational Safety and Health.

Here is the short of it. Global shoots add reciprocal-union running layers when above-the-line and below-the-line talent arrive from abroad. SAG-AFTRA performers via TAP Air Portugal direct routes from Newark, JFK, Boston, and Miami carry rate-scale parity plan. DGA directors and IATSE crew working Portuguese co-productions clear under bilateral recognition. UK Equity and BECTU members under EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement post-Brexit. French SACD and FFICA, German Bundesverband Regie BVR. And Lusofonia performer-union reciprocity with Brazilian SATED, Angolan UNAC, and Cape Verdean performer groups.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. We've set up union running for Indiana Jones 5 partial 2023 sequences with US union scale rates, Netflix's 1899 in 2022 Babelsberg-The country co-production with German Bundesverband BFFS and Portuguese STE harmonisation, Ira Sachs' Frankie in Sintra in 2019 with Isabelle Huppert under French SACD and US SAG-AFTRA scales, Glória Netflix-first in 2021 with Portuguese-only union scope, and Rabo de Peixe Azores in 2022. Each buy-in ships with 23 percent IVA invoicing, ICA cash-rebates spend groupings, and CNPD/RGPD-compliant talent-data handling.