Topic
Internships
189 published works
Employment Law Worldview
Do me a favour – internships and the Bribery Act
Take a business, X Limited. It offers a range of “work experiences” from formal assessed fortnights for likely future employment candidates to a casual few days for the offspring of…
Employment & Human Rights Law in Canada
The Perils of Working with Interns
By Lisa Stam
Because of the recent controversy surrounding unpaid interns, we have been getting many calls from concerned employers about their obligation when working with interns and employers’ rights when interns do…
Wisconsin Business Law Blog
Interns: To Pay or Not to Pay, That is the Question
Many businesses, including law firms and accounting firms, employ interns over the summer. There are a number of reasons such an arrangement works for both sides. For the business, interns…
Workplace Law & Strategy
Are you on the right path with interns?
By Ben Dudley, Philippa Noakes
Scott Morrison’s first Federal Budget announced the creation of the ‘Youth Jobs PaTH’ (Prepare-Trial-Hire) program - a program designed to encourage up to 120,000 unemployed youth into the workforce through…
The Law for Lawyers Today
Unpaid legal interns’ work can be billed to clients as fees or costs, NY state bar ass’n says
By Karen Rubin
In today's soft legal services market, some aspiring members of the profession feel pressure to work for free, but the fairness of such arrangements in general has come under scrutiny.…
Wage & Hour Litigation Blog
Gawker Victory Against Unpaid Interns Provides Helpful Roadmap
By Michael Fucci, Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Co-authored by Rob Whitman, Adam Smiley, and Nadia Bandukda A federal judge has sided with Gawker in the media company’s legal battle with a former unpaid intern who claimed that…
Wage & Hour Litigation Blog
Closure For Second Circuit Intern Case, But Risks Persist Nationally
By Michael Fucci, Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Co-authored by Robert Whitman and Adam Smiley Spring is around the corner, with summer not far behind, so thoughts naturally turn to the obvious topic: internships. Although the volume of…
Wage & Hour Litigation Blog
Second Circuit Leaves Interns in the Cold—Again
By Michael Fucci, Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Co-authored by Robert Whitman and Adam Smiley While most New Yorkers rode out last weekend’s blizzard by binge watching television or enjoying playoff football, three Second Circuit judges apparently spent…
Lawyers on Tap
‘Tis the Season for Internship Nightmares
With college exams finalized we hear from many companies that bring on college interns for a few weeks in late December and early January. It provides clients with help to…
Wage & Hour Law Update
Eleventh Circuit Adopts Second Circuit’s “Primary Beneficiary” Test to Determine Compensability of Internships
The Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit last week adopted the Second Circuit’s “primary beneficiary” test as the appropriate test for determining whether an unpaid clinical intern was truly…