No pay but oh the perps, I mean perks.
I had internships with a congressman and judge in which I learned a great deal about the workings of these Government institutions. The connections also served me well. That being said, I can see that things have evolved over the years with some companies totally taking advantage of free labor for what they would have often paid to have done. At my last corporate job in the US I had an intern work for me, provided him quite a bit of insight - he even worked several months beyond the time required to earn the college credit because I structured his work to be quite meaningful. Other co-workers who could have had free interns passed up the opportunity because it did require work on our part - it wasn’t without its cost in the time devoted o mentoring.
I haven’t read the actual opinion - I do hope it leaves room for well structured internships, not the ones that have been so abused by companies that the kids really don’t get much out of them. At least the abusive internships should be gone.
“...And they got nothing out of it that paid employees wouldn’t have...” Ow, double negative...and a poor one at that.
My brain hurts.
At least Bilbo’s brain burner was written by a literate and intelligent man, “I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
I would imagine that most Democrats would be opposed to unpaid internships. I could be wrong.
My architect son’s first job in the profession was a paid summer internship after his sophomore year. That led to part time work during the school year and full time summers, then a position with the firm after graduation. It took him an extra year to get his masters because he was so busy.
No pay but oh the perps, I mean perks.