Hot Topic Resources: Unpaid Internships
Topic Resources (listed by date)
February, 2010 – NACE Journal, “Legal Q&A: What are some of the legal issues surrounding internships?” by George C. Hlavac, Esq. and Edward J. Easterly, Esq.
InternBridge, “Is Your Internship Program in Compliance with Federal Law?” White Paper by Richard Bottner. Topic presented at the Cooperative Education and Internship Association (CEIA) Conference, March 21-23, 2010.
April 2 – The New York Times, “Growth of Unpaid Internships May Be Illegal” by Steven Greenhouse.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/03/business/03intern.html?emc=etal
April 5 / Rev. April 9 – Economic Policy Institute, “Not-So-Equal Protection, Reforming the Regulation of Student Internships” by Kathryn Anne Edwards and Alexander Hertel Fernandez.
http://www.epi.org/publications/entry/pm160/
April 21 – U.S. Department of Labor, “Fact Sheet #71: Internship Programs Under The Fair Labor Standards Act”.
http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs71.htm
April 21 – Chronicle of Higher Education, “U.S. Labor Department Releases New Rules for ‘Educational’
Internships” by Sara Lipka.
http://chronicle.com/article/US-Labor-Department-Releases/65197/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
April 28 – Chronicle of Higher Education, posts letter by thirteen University Presidents to the U.S. Department of Labor.
http://chronicle.com/items/biz/pdf/FINAL_US%20Department%20of%20Labor%20letter.pdf
April 29 – Chronicle of Higher Education, “Leave Internships to Us, College Leaders Tell Fed” by Sara Lipka.
http://chronicle.com/article/Leave-Internships-to-Us-Co/65326/
May 4 – InternBridge Webinar, “Paving the Way Through Paid Internships” with EPI’s Kathryn Anne Edwards and Alexander Hertel Fernandez; moderated by Richard Bottner.
May 5 – Economic Policy Institute, “EPI Responds to University Presidents on Internship Regulations” by EPI Vice President Ross Eisenbrey. http://www.epi.org/analysis_and_opinion/entry/epi_responds_to_university_presidents_on_internship_regulations/
May 9 – Chronicle of Higher Education, “Would You Like Credit With That Internship?” by Sara Lipka. http://chronicle.com/article/Would-You-Like-Credit-With/65434/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
May 22 – Mike True’s Internship-Net Listserve releases definition of internship. Version will be submitted to the boards of the National Society for Experiential Education (NSEE) and the Cooperative Education and Internship Association (CEIA) for their support.
May 28 – InternBridge Webinar, “Paid vs. Unpaid Internships – Online Panel Discussion” with Richard Bottner, Mike True, Krissi Geary-Boehm, Kathryn Edwards, and moderator Dave Cofer.
June 2, 2010, Law360, “Avoiding Liability for Unpaid Interns” by Mark W. Robertson and Charles J. Nerko, O’Melveny & Myers LLP.
http://www.omm.com/files/upload/RobertsonLaw360.pdf
June 10 – The Internship Institute, “Petition to Abolish Unpaid Interns” by Founder Matthew S. Zinman.
