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...attorney in New York City, has seen an uptick in recent months in private employers calling him to find out if they can bring in unpaid interns as a way to cut costs. His answer: volunteering at for-profit companies is, legally, a no-no. The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has spelled out several criteria with the goal of ensuring that internships not only provide real training but also can't be used by companies to displace regular employees. (See 10 ways your job will change...
...course, there's little incentive for employers or interns to blow the whistle, says Robert Trumble, a management professor and the director of the Virginia Labor Studies Center at Virginia Commonwealth University. Workers want experience and the connections that come along with it. (See pictures of retailers that have gone out of business...
...free labor," Grant Harris says of the 16-week internship he completed this winter with A Tailored Suit, which makes custom clothing for men. The 26-year-old, who lives in Leesburg, Va., and has an MBA, spent about 10 hours a week doing tasks like writing articles for the company's fashion guide, and he credits the owner with helping him launch his business as a style consultant. "I did it for the experience, and that's what I got," Harris says...
...Will labor activists in the U.S. ever get the intern genie back in the bottle? Not if enough people keep volunteering to work for free. Marian Schembari quit her unpaid internship at a Web-based publisher in New York City after three months of living with her parents. The 22-year-old, who graduated from college last year, reached the point where she felt that working 40-hour weeks for no pay was "degrading." But Schembari, who is now freelancing, still thinks she got something valuable out of the internship. "I was able to write for a website with...
...investigation concerns bribes allegedly paid as part of the approval process of major construction projects that occurred first while Olmert was mayor of Jerusalem from 1993 until 2003, and afterward when he was Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor. He became Prime Minister in 2006. Chief among the controversial projects was the 1999 development of the luxury Holyland residential towers on a prominent Jerusalem hilltop, which had originally been zoned for a hotel. Prosecutors are now alleging that Messer and Jerusalem's city architect at the time facilitated the approval of the much larger - and, some critics would say, much...