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Why don't people understand it makes no difference if the internship is paid or unpaid? If you are working for an org other than the government or school the ru
by mapattack 13y ago
Why don't people understand it makes no difference if the internship is paid or unpaid? If you are working for an org other than the government or school the rules are the same. Interns don't actually exist as a class of worker and labor code is based on a 1946 supreme court decision that referenced bricklayers.
I'm being sued by a former intern whom we paid a very respectable $15/hr for part time work over the summer; she's coming after me for like $100k because she alleges I wilfully misclassified her as a contractor rather than employee.
Bottom line: I won't use ANY interns. I say blame it on the millennials and generation entitlement. Drives me out of my mind that this person is trying to get rich off the back of a start up.
- SamReidHughes 13y agoWait a second, you had somebody you (a) call an intern, and (b) classified as a contractor? And you cry about millenials?
- anonymoushn 13y agoIt might be a bad idea to call her "a former intern" if you want to maintain that she was properly classified as "a contractor."
- TheCoelacanth 13y agoThere certainly is a difference between the difference between paid and unpaid internships. You can hire a paid intern under the same set of laws that apply to normal employment (because as you say interns are not a legal class of worker). As an employee, they are free to do work that benefits their employer. Unpaid interns may not do work that benefits the employer. You simply made the mistake of assuming that because you call one of your employees an intern, that you are free to disregard employment law. That is not the case. Paid internships are subject to the same laws as a normal employment relationship. Anyway, it's probably not the best idea to take advice about employment law from someone who thought interns were independent contractors.