Paying interns defeats the point of internships

http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/tax-and-economy/paying-interns-defeats-the-point-of-internships/

by cwan • 16 years ago

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CPops• 16 years ago

In what is ostensibly an effort to prevent exploitation, the government has legally created a situation where an internship is almost completely worthless to the intern.

Whether or not the laws are actually followed in most large businesses, I don't know. However, in the United States there are laws preventing interns from displacing paid employees and doing substantive work.

http://wdr.doleta.gov/directives/attach/TEGL/TEGL12-09acc.pd...

Because of this, I think all "interns" should get minimum wage to work around this nonsensical legal situation and actually be able to legally get in a position to work on something meaningful and to hopefully learn something useful.

zeemonkee• 16 years ago

It's not nonsensical if interns in fact do take jobs from paid employees.

I do agree that at the very least, with the exception of monitored academic credit-related work with a company, interns should get minimum wage.

Paying interns defeats the point of internships

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