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Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

What Employers Need to Know Before Offering an Unpaid Internship

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With summer approaching, some employers may be looking to bring in interns during their break from school. Internships are great as they provide students with real-world training and experience, which supplements the learning...more

Bricker Graydon LLP

Do I Need to Pay My Student Intern?

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With the start of this new semester, we have received several questions regarding whether student interns need to be paid. As everyone knows, state and federal law requires employers to pay employees for their work. ...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

The 10th Circuit Massaged the Idea of Whether Student-Trainees Were Employees Under the FLSA

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Seyfarth Synopsis:  Courts across the country have frequently weighed in on the unpaid interns/ trainees versus paid employee debate.  Now, the 10th Circuit has jumped into the fray with a decision affirming that a massage...more

Fisher Phillips

Labor Department’s New Approach Is A Game Changer For Student Internships

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The U.S. Department of Labor rang in the new year by announcing that it will abandon its rigid six-part test for determining whether interns qualify as employees under federal wage and hour law, introducing some much-needed...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: Seventh Circuit Rejects Claim That Cosmetology Trainees Were Employees

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Former cosmetology students are not employees entitled to pay under the FLSA and various state laws, the Seventh Circuit holds, rejecting the Department of Labor’s six-factor test but declining to adopt any bright-line test....more

Cooley LLP

Alert: Hiring Unpaid Interns: Federal Court Changes (Some of) the Rules

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On July 2, 2015, a federal appeals court upended the test companies and courts have relied upon for nearly seventy years to determine whether or not an intern must be paid. Instead, in Glatt v. Fox the Second Circuit Court of...more

Gray Reed

Paying Elves And Interns!

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Actually, internships may be a good option for Santa’s non-profit operation – so long as he does not pay a stipend or offer any benefits and clarifies whether interns are unpaid volunteers or paid employees. Paying a...more

Carlton Fields

8 Tips To Help Health Care Providers Minimize Possible Wage Liability For Student Interns

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As good corporate citizens, medical facilities help educate the next generation of health care workers by permitting students hands-on training through clinicals or rotations. Nevertheless, some students claim this training...more

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