The reason so many companies were able to get away with violating the law (because it really was so clear that Connecticut employment lawyer, Daniel Schwartz, described the ruling as «far from shocking,» on Twitter) was because interns didn't want to complain because they were afraid they wouldn't get any internships, which then lowers their chance of
getting a real job upon graduation.
Where else can someone who is working at unskilled things like serving tables, washing dishes, driving a delivery truck, working at an auto assembly plant or other factory, telemarketing at some boring office or who is otherwise working at any minimum wage
job due to a lack of education and / or meaningful
real - life experience etc.,
get to go to
real estate classes (hoping that a few months thereafter to be guiding uneducated consumers through the most expensive and most important financial transactions of their lives in trade for big fat commissions) often with a minimalist education (maybe just scraped by at that after multiple attempts to pass grade ten or eleven) and expect to instantly be labelled a professional operative
upon passing the
real estate courses» exams via penning memorized responses to forewarned - about - exam - questions by instructors who need to display a suitable passing percentage of students to keep their part - time teaching
jobs?