Unpaid internships in jeopardy after court ruling

[lynne]

5. I've worked with several interns -

- all of whom were unpaid. All were college students and the internship was required for their degree although I'm sure it didn't have to be unpaid.

Each of them had part-time jobs and one had a full time job. The internship required a specific number of total hours but they worked with us only a handful of hours a week. They weren't privileged or rich or used as slave labor. Truthfully, we have volunteers who put in far more hours a week than the interns.

These individuals approached us asking to intern to fulfill the requirements of their degree. The truth is, if we had to pay them they wouldn't have been there. We would have used our own staff or volunteers to do the duties we assigned to them.