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[–] novictim ago 

Classic! Train your slave to be a better slave and they should be grateful.

This has got be appealed. The rampant abuse here is well known to anyone coming out of college today.

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[–] tylahedras ago  (edited ago)

From the article:

"He argued that the proper way to determine workers’ status was to apply a “primary beneficiary test” — a concept proposed by Fox in which the worker can be considered an employee only if the employer benefits more from the relationship than the intern.

Judge Walker wrote that he and his fellow judges on the panel “agree with defendants that the proper question is whether the intern or the employer is the primary beneficiary of the relationship.”

He further argued that the test should hinge largely on the internship’s educational benefits: for example, whether the internship was tied to the intern’s formal schooling and whether it occurred in an educational setting.

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[–] wdmc2008 ago 

The problem is that a lot of industries that utilize unpaid interns are highly competitive (e.g. fashion, movies.) They can say, if you don't do an internship, you will never get a job; then the unpaid internship is really just a job with no educational value at all. This results in a system where the most skilled and most passionate people are effectively slave labor because if they ask for better conditions, then someone with slightly less skill will do the work for free, and the truth is that these "internships" don't really require any skill.

An ideal system would be one where unpaid internships were actually educational and competitive, and these unskilled jobs were actually available for people who really don't have many skills. If regulation and lawsuits are necessary to get there, then that is what should happen.

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[–] FreeSpeachRocks ago 

I agree with your conclusion... but it drives me crazy when people (e.g. Hillary) campaign for a minimum wage increase and to ban unpaid internships in the private sector while utilizing unpaid interns.