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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 1551254" data-attributes="member: 56035"><a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/unpaid_interns_can_collect_back_pay_without_hurting_their_careers_20140723" target="_blank">http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/unpaid_interns_can_collect_back_pay_without_hurting_their_careers_20140723</a>truthdig is one hell of a website for newsIntern definition: a student or trainee who works, sometimes without pay, at a trade or occupation in order to gain work experience.One recent <a href="http://www.naceweb.org/uploadedFiles/NACEWeb/Research/Student/2012-student-survey-executive-summary.pdf" target="_blank">study </a>found that over half of graduating college seniors had held some type of internship during school. That’s more than double the rate a similar study found two decades ago, and doesn’t even include graduates, adults switching fields or high school students.the Department of Labor doesn’t aggressively pursue complaints,Most unpaid interns do not have workers’ rights. Without pay, interns aren’t considered “employees” under the Civil Rights Act, and laws enforced by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission do not apply to them. Right now, unpaid interns are protected against <a href="http://www.propublica.org/article/how-unpaid-interns-arent-protected-against-sexual-harassment" target="_blank">sexual harassment </a> only in places that have proactively closed this legal loophole – Oregon, Washington D.C. and New York City.young adults born to poor families are less able to accept internships because they can&#039;t afford to work for free.this is where the american economy is headed : to a form of precarious low paying jobs.&nbsp; neo feudalism</blockquote>

[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 1551254, member: 56035"] [URL]http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/unpaid_interns_can_collect_back_pay_without_hurting_their_careers_20140723[/URL] truthdig is one hell of a website for news Intern definition: a student or trainee who works, sometimes without pay, at a trade or occupation in order to gain work experience. One recent [URL='http://www.naceweb.org/uploadedFiles/NACEWeb/Research/Student/2012-student-survey-executive-summary.pdf']study [/URL]found that over half of graduating college seniors had held some type of internship during school. That’s more than double the rate a similar study found two decades ago, and doesn’t even include graduates, adults switching fields or high school students. the Department of Labor [EMAIL='http://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-labor-department-let-companies-off-hook-for-unpaid-internships']doesn’t aggressively pursue complaints[/EMAIL], [B]Most unpaid interns do not have workers’ rights.[/B] Without pay, interns aren’t considered “employees” under the Civil Rights Act, and laws enforced by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission do not apply to them. Right now, unpaid interns are protected against [URL='http://www.propublica.org/article/how-unpaid-interns-arent-protected-against-sexual-harassment']sexual harassment [/URL] only in places that have proactively closed this legal loophole – Oregon, Washington D.C. and New York City. young adults born to poor families are less able to accept internships because they can't afford to work for free. this is where the american economy is headed : to a form of precarious low paying jobs. neo feudalism [/QUOTE]

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