Summer Media Internship

I am extremely pleased to hear that the Labor Department is cracking down on companies who are not paying their interns when the intern is doing anything and everything to keep a good name and a possible job when the internship is over.  You cannot blame a student/intern who is seeking for a job right after college to do whatever their superiors at the internship are asking of them.  The thing is that it is not fair or legal, for that matter, for employers to take advantage of their interns and make them do the run arounds/errands of the office.  As stated in the article, one unpaid intern was assigned to work in animation for their internship but instead was given the task to clean the door handles of all the offices to prevent swine flu; this is unfair and there is no gain of work experience under these conditions.

Many interns are looking to get a full work experience in their field of study and wanting to put their name out there to get their foot in the door.  The employers who hire these interns should know what it is like to just get started and what it is like to learn the ropes.  It is not fair that some companies take advantage of the interns who are willing to do whatever their bosses want because they do not want to step on any toes when it comes to finding a career based job or a possible job after the internship is up.

Hopefully the crack down keeps going and more unpaid interns get their voices heard if they are treated unfairly and not getting the work experience promised to them when they were hired.