Internships
If an internship is handled like an educational experience, is for the benefit of the student/intern and the work done does not replace that of regular workers it can be unpaid. If the intern is doing real meaningful work and there is benefit to the company there should be compensation. The judge said so and I agree.
College football players and basketball players at the football and basketball factories should take note of this ruling big time.
For many years, I always had summer work experience youth in my office. I was expected to rotate them around the office doing various tasks. They worked the information desk with a more experienced worker, helped doing filing, did data entry work, and helped generally and they were paid the minimum wage the first year and maybe more the next year depending on how much money was in the grant we received. I wrote recommendation letters for college for good workers and was glad to have them around. Sometimes the youth were more of a supervision problem than they were worth but that could have been said at times for my staff as well.
Given the economic situation, I can understand employers taking a hard line because there were and still are lots of folks willing to replace slackers, but nobody should be compelled to work for nothing on the hope that something good will happen to them in the future.
There are already so many areas where benefits are being cut that it would almost seem reasonable that folks who employ others would think they should be allowed to use unpaid internships as a screening tool for their companies in a way that is unfair to workers.
College football players and basketball players at the football and basketball factories should take note of this ruling big time.
For many years, I always had summer work experience youth in my office. I was expected to rotate them around the office doing various tasks. They worked the information desk with a more experienced worker, helped doing filing, did data entry work, and helped generally and they were paid the minimum wage the first year and maybe more the next year depending on how much money was in the grant we received. I wrote recommendation letters for college for good workers and was glad to have them around. Sometimes the youth were more of a supervision problem than they were worth but that could have been said at times for my staff as well.
Given the economic situation, I can understand employers taking a hard line because there were and still are lots of folks willing to replace slackers, but nobody should be compelled to work for nothing on the hope that something good will happen to them in the future.
There are already so many areas where benefits are being cut that it would almost seem reasonable that folks who employ others would think they should be allowed to use unpaid internships as a screening tool for their companies in a way that is unfair to workers.
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