Your subject line does a great disservice to your point. The issue is not one of laws but one between employer and employees (and their Union in this case). We do not (and I don't think we want to) tell Apple what to pay its employees beyond a minimum (and we are not even capable, as a country, of even setting a reasonable minimum, so let's start there).
I think standardized profit-sharing pursuant to a formula is something that AEA can and likely will raise at the next term. (current contract runs through 2019, and was negotiated pre-Hamilton phenomenon, so that may answer the "How has this not...?".) The producers will kick and scream, but I think it would be wrong if the union did not address it.
There are miscellaneous not-quite-right facts in this thread, not really worth getting into, though I do wonder why people are still stating $1800 as the minimum pay when it is over $2k this year. Also it is highly unlikely any principal in Hamilton was getting the minimum (which is not to say that actors should not be paid than they are or that Ramos or anyone else in a similar posture was or is riding high on the hog, which I think was his point. There was only one original company person on the stage who was, and he deserves every penny he gets.) |
