Internships, Employee Rights, Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)

Employment Law - July 2015 #2

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 7/23/2015

DOL Proposes Major Overhaul of Overtime Rules: Why it matters - Expanding the scope of employees eligible for overtime, the Department of Labor (DOL) released its long-awaited new rules revising the white collar...more

California Employment Law Notes - July 2015

Proskauer - California Employment Law on 7/17/2015

Employee's Inability To Work For A Particular Supervisor Does Not Constitute A "Disability" - Higgins-Williams v. Sutter Med. Found., 237 Cal. App. 4th 78 (2015) - Michaelin Higgins-Williams worked as a clinical...more

Second Circuit Establishes New Test for Unpaid Intern Claims

Morgan Lewis on 7/7/2015

The Second Circuit’s ruling provides employers with greater leeway for unpaid internship programs and a stronger defense for class-action lawsuits brought by unpaid interns. In a long-awaited decision, the US Court of...more

USDOL Brief Elaborates Upon "Intern" Views

Fisher Phillips on 7/21/2014

We wrote some time ago about a lower federal court's determination in Glatt v. Fox Searchlight Pictures that at least two unpaid interns were "employees" for federal Fair Labor Standards Act purposes. ...more

Thinking about Hiring Interns? New Case Reminds Employers of Rules on Interns

Bracewell LLP on 5/21/2014

Following similar decisions involving Hearst Corporation and Viacom, a federal judge in the Southern District of New York recently granted conditional certification of a potential nation-wide class of approximately 3,000...more

Should The White House Be Paying Its Interns?

Fisher Phillips on 2/4/2014

The unpaid-interns ruckus continues to unfold, this time in a way that entangles President Obama. As we many have observed, an unpaid White House intern might conclude that he or she is “engaged in the operations of...more