Workers in costume workshops spend their day stitching, dyeing and painting costumes. They will generally arrive and be ready to start work at 8am and will expect to leave at 6pm. In the workshop, ...

The Chancellor of the Exchequer has revealed her first Budget, the first ever by a female Chancellor. Among the measures announced were a raft of tax rises, including to Employers’ National Insurance ...

Responding to Ofcom’s decision on a new broadcast licence for Channel 4, Head of Bectu Philippa Childs said: “While we welcome Ofcom’s requirement for Channel 4 to set out and report on commissioning ...

Responding to the Budget, Head of Bectu Philippa Childs said: “There are promising signs in today’s Budget that the government understands the incredible cultural and economic value of the creative ...

Trade Union Congress was held in Brighton from 8-11 September 2024. Prospect’s delegation was made up of reps from across the union, representing a range of sectors, as well as those on the NEC and ...

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LGBT+ Bectu members work together through the LGBT+ Committee and Network to build positive change across workplaces, including through building solidarity with fellow workers and other members across ...

Under the 2008 Pensions Act you may be designated as a ‘worker’ for auto-enrollment purposes. This requires your engager to enroll you into an automatic enrollment qualifying pension scheme. The ...

Alfie Squires was a larger-than-life and much-loved NATTKE and BETA activist, who died at a tragically early age in July 1990. He worked tirelessly for the creation of Bectu through the amalgamation ...

Bectu Vision short courses support the training needs of freelance film and television practitioners in Scotland, with a focus on scripted production. Our training courses are funded by Scottish Union ...