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[–] edistojim 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

If you are a supporter of the $15 minimum wage, you should pay your people $15 per hour. Intern or not, doesn't matter if you own a ditch digging service, if its something you are campaigning for, then don't be a hypocrite and talk out of both sides of your mouth. He wants MickyDs to do it but doesn't believe he needs to…..typical politician , thats for thee, not for me.

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[–] ShadowMongoose ago 

Interns are a tightly defined class of workers that are not employees and are thus explicitly exempt from minimum wage laws, just as servers (waitresses/waiters), and other tipped employees are exempt from minimum wage laws (though being actual employees they must be paid a minimum commonly referred to as the "waiter wage").

Any new laws regarding minimum wages will almost certainly maintain those exemptions, with interns still being defined as non-employees that are not due any wage, and tipped employees being paid a lower (though possibly higher than current) minimum.

So unless you have some evidence that his future bill includes a requirement to pay interns, and to do so at the new minimum wage, you are talking out of your ass.

Interns are an exception by law, just because you want to deny that fact doesn't make it so.