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He's saying there are organizations that "pay negative salary": interns must PAY to be there. Paid internships is reasonable (especially in a culture of compuls
by ctdonath 11y ago
He'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