Next on "The Steve Wilkos Show" — employers looking for people willing to work themselves to death to get into show business.
Red-faced officials from the daytime show, syndicated by NBC, were forced this week to yank a Craigslist ad looking for freelance production assistants to work a 65-hour week — which is illegal.
"This job is a freelance position and is a six-day-a-week commitment (65+ hours per week)," read the original ad — which ran for about two days before word got out. It quickly vanished from the free classified ad site.
The mistake was in saying the position was for a freelance job rather than a temp, an insider at the show said.
JOB ONE: Steve Wilkos' show had to pull ad for freelancer.
It is illegal under state labor laws to make employees work more than 40 hours without paying overtime.
Freelancers are usually paid a flat rate, while temps are paid on the same hourly basis as regular employees — but without benefits.
The ad — which expected so much of a job candidate willing to start at the bottom for a job in show business — is a sign of hard times in the employment market, especially in glamor fields like TV.
"In the current state of labor relations in the US there's a huge push to eradicate the line between independent contractors versus employees," says Pam Moore, head of Labor and Employment at the national law firm McCarter & English. "Unless a person is under 18, there are no 'hours-per-week' restrictions."
A revised ad, once again seeking a production assistant for "Wilkos," is expected to repost next week, the show said.
"The position is a temporary production assistant who is employed by a third party employment agency," a show spokesperson said in a prepared statement.
"All of our productions follow all employment laws and guidelines and we treat every employee with fairness and respect."
"Wilkos," like other NBC-syndicated talk shows "Jerry Springer," "Maury" and "Trisha Goddard," is shot in Stamford, Conn.
"Like most states, Connecticut has a task force to crack down on the misclassification of employees by independent contractors," Moore says.
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