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The value of an internship is unmistakable. It teaches marketable skills, it builds professional networks, and it helps students test-drive careers. Unpaid internships are facing new scrutiny from ...
The feeling I come away with is that unpaid internships are an important lesson in the concept of caveat emptor. As with any job, applicants should try to find out as much ahead of time about the ...
In the first ruling of its kind, a judge decided last week that two unpaid interns at Fox Searchlight were legally employees, and should have been paid. What does this mean for the future of the ...
Two unpaid interns who worked on the set of "Black Swan'" had sued the studio, and last week, the judge ruled in their favor, saying that Fox Searchlight should have paid the interns since they ...
A 2023 petition to the FTC to ban non-compete agreements estimated that about 30 million workers (about 20% of all U.S. workers) were subject to a noncompete clause. [3] While higher-wage workers are comparatively more likely to be covered by non-compete clauses, non-competes covered 14 percent of workers without college degrees in 2018. [ 4 ]
The organisation started as a Facebook group named "Interns Must Be Paid The Minimum Wage". [1] It has led campaigns focused on the non-payment of parliamentary interns. [2] [3] [4] It also campaigned during the Labour Party's leadership election, securing the support of all five candidates [5] [6] and persuading Andy Burnham MP to demand that the BBC end unpaid work experience. [7]
This episode explains why the 40-hour work week hinders productivity, why unpaid internships are exploitative, why freelancing is illegal, and why open disclosure of salaries is beneficial. Guest stars: Oscar Nunez as Benny and Naomi Ekperigin as Shaina. Experts: Robert Reich and Ryan Carson
According to a recent article in The New York Times, officials in several states are concerned that in the current economy many companies are offering unpaid internships that are violating minimum ...