Union plant? Oh, that would be DELICIOUS! :)
Pass the popcorn, please......................
So what part of that violates NYS labor laws?
A link at the source article has more:
“By misclassifying Plaintiffs and hundreds of workers as unpaid or underpaid interns, NBCUniversal has denied them the benefits that the law affords to employees, including unemployment, workers compensation insurance, social security contributions, and, most crucially, the right to earn a fair days wage for a fair days work, says the 23-page complaint (read it here). The proposed class action goes after NBCUniversal for labor law violations in using what are essentially free workers. A key part of NBCUniversals success are the hundreds of unpaid or underpaid interns who work for it as production assistants, researchers, and delivery-people, but receive no or very little compensation for their work, it adds. “
Also a claim that they were not paid minimum wage.
Guess NYS law has no intern exception.
Hollweird, the media (NYSlimes)and entertainment industry are all guilty of this. All of them.
I despise David Letterman, but these interns agreed to work for that disgusting pig for free, and he kept his side of the bargain. Their claim for back pay after the fact has absolutely no merit.
Hard to believe that dirty old man is still allowed on broadcast TV. You can bet if he had made those jokes about the child of a Democrat he would have been out of showbiz forever.
Is he still banging interns uglier than his wife?
Rule # 276
Never trust ANYONE who abuses the help......
A friend of mine interned for the Letterman Show. Score tickets for me. He never complained. Was a funny guy... now teaching in college.
Oopsie. It really isn’t any different in the entertainment biz, interns are there for the training, not the glory, and certainly not for slave labor. I was already cutting Dave more slack than I should - old time’s sake, I guess - when he popped up with that Bristol Palin / Alex Rodriguez “joke”. Whoever wrote that one for him cost him bigtime.
That's short for Worldwide Trouble Keeping It In Dave's Pants Inc.