Music makers promised speedier access to royalties
An organisation that manages more than 45 million works of music is to pay artists monthly rather than quarterly when their tracks…
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Arts Pay Survey 2025: Preliminary findings
Freelance arts workers are earning an average annual salary 20.5% less than the benchmark set by the Living Wage Foundation’s �…
Arts Pay 2025: Largest survey of cultural sector earnings and conditions launches
Arts Professional has launched its latest Pulse survey to examine policy and practice in the cultural sector. Previous Pulse surve…
Equity calls on club owner to halt ‘exploitative business practices’
Equity has joined with the grassroots performers’ collective, Cabaret Unpaid, to demand that the club owner, Alex Proud, stop “e…
Government faces fresh calls for freelance commissioner
The government is facing fresh calls for the appointment of a freelance commissioner, with a number of peers backing the establish…
Spending Review: Major cultural organisations told to ‘review pay and cut workforce’
Efforts to cut DCMS spending by £52m will see the government department and all the public bodies it sponsors compelled to adopt…
Paperwork issues causing payment delays for touring musicians, arts accountant warns
UK musicians are experiencing months-long delays in payments for international gigs due a paperwork hold up at HMRC, according to…
Creative freelancers facing ‘exploitation, bullying and harassment’
The rights of freelancers working in Scotland’s creative sector are being “ridden roughshod by shoddy employers and poor emplo…
Union secures fee rise for playwrights
Playwrights working in the UK independent theatre sector will get a 24% increase in minimum fees over three years as well as new r…
Employment rights exemption for struggling arts organisations proposed in parliament
Struggling arts organisations could be given an exemption from proposed legislation to end zero-hours contracts and boost workers’…
Gender pay gap in cultural sector narrows
The gender pay gap in the cultural sector is closing, newly published figures from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DC…
Equity calls on video games industry to introduce union-negotiated agreements
Equity has called on video game bosses to improve pay, terms and conditions for performers in the industry.A protest at the BAFTA…
Equity secures pay hike for BBC performers
Performers’ union Equity and the BBC have agreed a range of improvements for performers including pay increases. Under the deal th…
Majority of freelancers getting less work post-pandemic
Freelancers in the creative and cultural industries have experienced a drop in work since the Covid pandemic, the findings of a ne…
Welfare reforms ‘pit disabled people against the taxpayer’
Trade union Equity has criticised government proposals to reform the welfare system set out in a green paper this week, saying the…
BBC Scotland soap cancellation ‘devastating’ for writers
The cancellation of the BBC drama River City is “devastating news” for writers, the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain has said…
More than half of artists in Yorkshire and Humber earn under £5,000
Well over half of artists and art workers in the Yorkshire and Humber region earn less than £5,000 a year from their work, resear…
Unions sign agreement with Bradford 2025 on creative workers pay and conditions
A memorandum of understanding between four trade unions and Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture has been agreed, securing creative wo…
Major rights holders seek assurances over AI drive
A coalition of arts sector bodies and creative rights holders is calling for assurances from the government after it set out its p…
Security guards at three London museums set for more strike action
Security guards at the Science Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Natural History Museum will begin fresh industrial a…
Playwrights secure new terms for streaming work
A “landmark” agreement has been reached with playwrights to protect their pay and other rights relating to the digital deliver…
Security guard strikes at Natural History and Science Museums suspended pending talks
Security guards at the Natural History Museum and the Science Museum suspended a planned strike on this week (03 December) to allo…
Visual artist earnings down 40% on 2010
The median income for visual artists is just £12,500 a year, a 40% decrease in earnings since 2010, when it stood at £16,000, a…
Kate Nash: OnlyFans ‘more lucrative than touring’
Musician Kate Nash has started selling pictures on the website OnlyFans to subsidise the cost of touring. The BBC reports that Nas…
