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In NJBIA’s recent article, Kathleen Connelly, a member of Lindabury’s Employment Law<\/a> practice group, discusses the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) new test to determine if a student intern is an employee, which may make unpaid internships a more viable option for employers.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy no means is this a green light for employers to avoid their minimum wage and overtime requirements by masking their employees as unpaid interns,\u201d Connelly said. \u201cI think the best way to approach it is for the employer to stand in the shoes of the intern and craft the internship in such a way that it provides real value to the intern that is linked to the intern\u2019s course of study.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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In NJBIA’s recent article, Kathleen Connelly, a member of Lindabury’s Employment Law practice group, discusses the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) new test to determine if a student intern is an employee, which may make unpaid internships a more viable option for employers. \u201cBy no means is this a green light for employers to avoid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,247],"tags":[],"coauthors":[139],"class_list":["post-3121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insights","category-labor-employment-insights"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nAre Unpaid Internships Ready for a Comeback? — January 15, 2018 — Lindabury, McCormick, Estabrook & Cooper, P.C. 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