A bill aims to integrate artist-authors into the common unemployment insurance fund

Guaranteeing continuity of income for artist-authors registered with Urssaf Limousin (the national organization that collects their social security contributions): this is the thrust of the bill defended by Monique de Marco, Senator for Gironde (Les Ecologistes), Vice-President of the Culture, Education and Communication Committee. This initiative targets all creators who do not have access to the intermittent entertainment workers' scheme. Namely, more than thirty professions including writers, translators, film directors, stage directors, screenwriters, composers, visual artists, photographers, exhibition curators, art critics and even choreographers...

Today, when a play is performed, actors and technicians such as electricians, decorators, dressers, and hairdressers can access unemployment benefits during lean periods if they have worked a minimum of 507 hours in the year—they benefit from intermittent entertainment status. But not the playwright or the director. The same applies during a film shoot: all benefit from intermittent status, except the director and the composer.

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