The unpaid intern, legal or not
dfabiani on Jun 29th 2010
It’s sad to understand that companies do abuse their interns for free labor. I don’t think that I feel that at my internship…yet. I’m extremely comfortable, but I do see when I’m asked to cover stories too much, my budget gets too too tight. And being that I work it’s okay, but sometimes it gets a little out of hand when the internship starts hitting your wallet hard. Oh the joy of getting experience.
To fine employers for internships could sway them away from taking them on no? Then how will we get that “experience” that we supposedly need to much to make it in this world! Oh man. It’s like supporting the lesser of two evils. I just don’t know which way to turn. I’m happy I have an internship, yet I fully empathize with this article.
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I think employers are too dependent on free or cheap labor. Even if companies were to get fined for breaking certain labor work laws, they would look for the best alternative possible to bring on a cheaper work force, even if it means they have to come out of pocket a little bit. Worst comes to worst for them and they don’t want to bring onboard more people, they distribute the work amongst their core staff, which can be frightening if your a staff writer or editor.