Cast & Crew Payroll Service Explains Why It Raised Alarm on Loan Outs: ‘There’s Very Severe Stakes Here’
Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer It began as a routine audit at Cast & Crew, one of several payroll companies that service the entertainment industry. But that audit — typically handled in secret — has now raised alarms across Hollywood. Last week, Cast & Crew put out a warning that the California Employment Development Department was attempting to “invalidate the use of loan-outs” — a common structure by which entertainment professionals get paid.