Unpaid internships are back! New federal court ruling

[HarvestMoon1]

Um @awc I think you need to go back and read the OP. According to the article in the original post the Second Circuit just threw out the 6 pronged test you linked above in the Dinsmore article. They instituted a new 7 pronged test.

@Forbes

…in 2010 the Labor Department put out a six-part test, saying that unpaid internships had to satisfy each part: An unpaid internship had to be like the training the intern would get in an educational environment, it had to be done for the intern’s benefit, it couldn’t displace regular employees, it couldn’t give “immediate advantage” to the employer, and the intern had to understand that he wasn’t going to get paid and he wasn’t going to get a job at the end of the internship.

In the ruling last week, the court wiped out that standard and applied a totally new test, a requirement that the “primary beneficiary” of the internship must be the intern rather than the employer. The judges laid out a list of seven things to consider, emphasizing that the internship should tie in with the intern’s formal schooling.

And if you happen to still have one of your interns hanging around this summer, maybe they could proofread your writing for spelling.