Unpaid internships for law students appear to be on the rise in law firms, as in other sectors of the economy. I argue that such unpaid internships are illegal under the Fair Labor Standards Act, and raise ethical questions under the Model Rules of Professional Conduct. Moreover, the ...
Paid internships lower your risk. There has been an increase in internship lawsuits, including major cases against Fox Searchlight and Condé Nast. Beyond getting sued, if you have unpaid interns, there’s risk to your brand in bad publicity. Q: What are some other benefits to paying interns...
We can see the traces of this idea in many places: the taboo that surrounds talking about money in art schools, the persistence of unpaid design internships, and the regular propositions to pitch for free. For several decades, the price of this belief has been creatives’ difficulty in ...
in effect, provide unpaid summer internships for recent college graduates seeking a shot at the pros. (The league’s inaugural teams are the Mahoning Valley Scrappers, State College Spikes, West Virginia Black Bears, and
offer the ghost writing opportunity to students in the class. Not only will it be technical experience that is greatly needed, but it will also provide them with a reference for future work, in lieu of payment. Many college students work unpaid internships, and are not unfamiliar with the ...
(bill AB5), are more concerned with making gig work more like employment than with figuring out how to help people who cannot undertake employment. Workers need support with highly intermittent, part-time, flexible work and unpaid career search activities over a few years (a common strategy ...
“got” the characters—four friends, adrift in a modern New York of unpaid internships and bad sex on dirty sofas. But the show also spoke to me in another way. As a person who has followed, for more than twenty years, recurrent, maddening debates about the lives of young women,...
“got” the characters—four friends, adrift in a modern New York of unpaid internships and bad sex on dirty sofas. But the show also spoke to me in another way. As a person who has followed, for more than twenty years, recurrent, maddening debates about the lives of young women,...