[Diana in Wisconsin]

Union plant? Oh, that would be DELICIOUS! :)

[Red Badger]

Pass the popcorn, please......................

[sickoflibs]

RE:”Musallam’s attorneys allege that she worked a 40-hour week like a full time employee and did not receive any “academic or vocational training” while at the Late Show. In fact, they say that was the point so the production company could keep its payroll expenses down. “Upon information and belief, Defendants would have hired additional employees or required existing staff to work additional hours had the Named Plaintiff and the putative class members not performed work for Defendants,” the 14-page filing also adds.”

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 day’s wage for a fair day’s 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 NBCUniversal’s 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.

[Drango]

Hollweird, the media (NYSlimes)and entertainment industry are all guilty of this. All of them.

[Pollster1]

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.

[GeronL]

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.

[longfellow]

Is he still banging interns uglier than his wife?

[GraceG]

Rule # 276
Never trust ANYONE who abuses the help......

[Rodamala]

A friend of mine interned for the Letterman Show. Score tickets for me. He never complained. Was a funny guy... now teaching in college.

[Billthedrill]

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.

[x]

Mallory Musallam filed a class action complaint against CBS Broadcasting, CBS Corporation and the retiring late night host’s Worldwide Pants Inc.

That's short for Worldwide Trouble Keeping It In Dave's Pants Inc.