LAX models – and apparently all agents in LATATA will now be charging producers a $20 testing fee if they require the models to have a 14-day or under test. Those producers who accept the standard 30 days test, then they will not have to pay this fee.
Effectively Immediately, if your production requires a 14-Day or Under Test, we will be adding a Medical Testing fee of $20 to your Invoice from LAX Models. Alternatively, you can pay the model $20 more at time of shoot or with payment. If you do not require an Under 14-Day Test and use a 30-Day or Under requirement, you will not be assessed this fee. This is a LATATA.org focused initiative at assisting the Talent with the new, more stringent requirements being placed by select producers.
I wonder what kind of influence this will have on the new standard that the FSC has put down, asking everyone to test every 14 days instead of once every 30 days.
In addition now some models are listing that they will do b/g only with condoms. Condom only performers have existed in the past but it seems nowadays there are far far more of them.
This is a great idea, if talent gets booked 5 times. That’s 100 bucks less they have to pay on there test. In reality a 14 day test is no better because there is a window period. This is a truly great idea I believe this is a great way to help the talent. I believe Latata is the true voice of the industry FSC has done nothing and failed all of us.
I second that FUCK FSC
THEY STEAL ARE MONEY AND DON’t DO SHIT FOR US
FUCK THE FSC!!!
I think I must agree with you. The FSC has failed us in so many ways so many times by now – they are by far the one the least trustable sources.
While the $20 fee doesn’t cover the whole thing, it at least helps.
I mean obviously a girl isn’t going to do one scene a day every day for 14 days but it’s a start. The fee is low and it means she would have to work 9 days out of the 14 to cover the full costs of her test. But again … it’s a start and more of a solution (A REAL SOLUTION) than anything the FSC has come up with.
Funny how the FSC loves to skirt around the real issues like the fact that the law requires producers to cover the cost of testing in the first place.
Remind me again why the heck anyone listens and promotes the FSC as a real industry resource in the first place?