Not paying interns is a common labor and employment violation in California when «interns» are used
as unpaid labor.
However, this is the first suit to object to Yelp's utilization of reviewers
as unpaid labor, exploiting «a vulnerable and disposable class of workers.»
Not exact matches
In general, under the Fair
Labor Standards Act (FLSA), individuals can't volunteer services to for - profit, private - sector companies unless the activity benefits the employee, such
as in the case of an
unpaid internship.
Parent is involved in several lawsuits in which the plaintiffs are seeking
unpaid overtime compensation and other damages based on allegations that various employees of Electronic Data Systems Corporation («EDS») or Parent have been misclassified
as exempt employees under the Fair
Labor Standards Act and / or in violation of the California
Labor Code or other state laws.
Russian
labor still went
unpaid as the oligarchs converted their roubles into dollars at the exchange rate subsidized by the IMF loans and investment inflows into GKO bills and stocks in the natural resource companies being privatized.
DHCR said factors such
as unpaid property taxes and
labor violations do play a role in the agency's decisions on which projects receive public funds.
For a medium that looks
as glamorous and easy - breezy
as street style, the widespread culture of
unpaid labor may have reached a tipping point where people have decided that the circus maybe isn't worth the effort anymore.
I have served for years
as a member of GLEF's National Advisory Board (
as a
labor of love; advisory board members are
unpaid) because I believe in the value of this enterprise.
As approved by the Subcommittee on
Labor - Management Relations on an 11 - to - 5 vote last week, the measure would require employers to grant their workers up to 10 weeks of
unpaid leave every two years to care for a newborn or adopted infant or an ill child...
Amounts owing to be a person
as a result of a violation of this Act shall be deemed to be
unpaid minimum wages or
unpaid over time compensation for purposes of sections 16 and 17 of the Fair
Labor Standards Act of 1938,
as amended (29 U.S.C. 216, 217): Provided.
Everything else was provided free of charge (such
as the radio station from which I broadcast my two weekly shows (Madison Review of Books; The Science Fiction & Fantasy Hour), and the
labor of
unpaid volunteers.
Many unscrupulous employers in Texas look at delivery drivers
as dispensable
labor; this explains their high turnover rate, but also explains the increasing number
unpaid wage lawsuits filed by frustrated workers who have been forced to take legal action — often through class actions.
It was decided in this case that two interns working on the set of the film Black Swan should have been paid, given that the work they accomplished did not meet the six criteria used for determining that an internship may be
unpaid,
as published in a fact sheet by the U.S. Department of
Labor (which are interestingly the same criteria published by the Ontario Ministry of Labour):
Some of the most common are wrongful termination, discrimination, retaliation, violations of the Family Medical Leave Act, violations of the Fair Employment and Housing Act, Violations of the California Family Rights Act, privacy breaches (e.g. disclosure of a medical condition to someone who did not need to know), contract breaches, unfair bargaining and / or union and
labor law disputes,
unpaid wages,
unpaid overtime, failure to pay minimum wage for all hours worked, failure to provide proper pay stubs, failure to pay for unused vacation days upon resignation or termination, failure to pay for all hours worked within 72 hours of quitting, failure to pay for all hours worked immediately upon leaving when the employee gives fair notice or resignation to the employer, failure to keep adequate records, failure to produce employment records upon request, failure to provide wage and pay information upon hiring, misclassification of an hourly employee
as an exempt employee, misclassification of an hourly employee
as an independent contractor, work place bullying, sexual harassment, disparate impact, disparate treatment, class actions for failure to pay wages and over time, class actions for failure to provide meal and rest breaks, and class actions for failure to reimburse employees for expenses.
Our firm is dedicated to representing employees
as individuals or
as class representatives against their employers for
Labor law violations, including: Overtime, Double Time, Failure to Provide Meal and Rest,
Unpaid Tips,
Unpaid wages, Improper Employee Classification, Failure to Reimburse Business Expenses, Failure to Provide Commissions, Unlawful Deductions, Failure to Provide Accurate Wage Statements, Failure to Pay all Wages at the time of Discharge or Resignation.
As businesses look to decrease cost of
labor, they are replacing many entry - level jobs by hiring
unpaid interns to fill in the gap.
In order for internships in «for profit» companies to qualify
as unpaid, they must meet six federal legal criteria
as outlined in this United States Department of
Labor fact sheet.
Both Sullivan and Sayer report that when we take into account that husbands tend to work more paid hours than wives, we find that — aside from families with very young infants, such
as those described in the OSU study — the total work hours of couples (combining paid and
unpaid labor) are basically even.