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Are you saying unpaid internships are OK because there's something worse, or are you calling out the practice of paying to volunteer, or something else?
by a3n 11y ago
Are you saying unpaid internships are OK because there's something worse, or are you calling out the practice of paying to volunteer, or something else?
- ctdonath 11y agoHe's saying there are organizations that "pay negative salary": interns must PAY to be there. Paid internships is reasonable (especially in a culture of compulsory minimum wages), unpaid internships are also reasonable (when the two agree it's the work & experience which is traded, and they agree to forego money transfer), but there are questionable groups requiring the intern pay for the privilege/experience of working there.
- rtpg 11y agoI don't understand how unpaid internships that involve any form of work (that is to say, anything beyond observing the company) is legal. A company is asking you to do something (what others would call work). Just because you have a Masters degree doesn't make bringing coffee to people not work. The reason is obvious though: loopholes in minimum wage laws to please industries based around underpaying interns. A friend of mine did his final internship in a code house that was based entirely on intern work. One head guy was getting contracts, and pulling in local students to do the coding, and cycling the students out after 3 months (right before the French legal limit on unpaid internships). Quite a mess