Common use of Order of Engagement Clause in Contracts

Order of Engagement. (a) Whenever the duties of a department (Production Management, Assistant Direction, Location Management, Editing Department, Accounting Department) are to be performed, a Department Head (i.e., Production Manager, First Assistant Director, Location Manager, Production Accountant, etc.) shall be engaged. Any subsequent Guild Members who may be engaged in a department will be engaged in the order of the next highest classification as set out in the table below. Sufficient assistants to satisfactorily carry out the duties and responsibilities of that Department shall be engaged. A department head shall not be assigned to more than one (1) Production at any one time with the exception of prep and wrap.