Nancy Fulton: Hiring Cast & Crew Legally Nationwide with Castifi

Failure to provide those who work on your projects with workers comp insurance and meeting other legal requirements can (and often does) translate into significant fines and other penalties. While you may call the people you work with to produce a project "volunteers", "contractors" or "interns" the IRS and state governments will almost certainly call them employees even if they are only working for a few hours. It's not difficult or expensive to hire people legally nationwide using Castifi.com. 

For cast and crew . . . You should know that being hired under the table as an actor, writer, DP, etc exposes you to a lot of risks. Instead of accepting that risk you can ask folks to use Castifi to legally employ you while you work for them. Even getting paid minimum wage has value when it comes with necessary protections like workers compensation, unemployment insurance, disability insurance, etc.