The Olsen Twins (net worth 1 billion) are being sued for not paying 40 interns

[BigNuts]

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen’s fashion empire is worth an estimated $1 billion. Interns at the Olsens’ Dualstar Entertainment company are unpaid. And, as of Tuesday, they’re suing.

A class-action lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court alleges the Olsens failed to pay 40 past and present interns. Lead plantiff Shashista Lalani, a former design intern, told Page Six about her unpaid gig at the Olsens’ Dualstar Entertainment Group in 2012, where she worked under the head technical designer for The Row, the Olsen’s high-end fashion label, for five months.

“I was doing the work of three interns,” Lalani told Page Six.” I was talking to her all day, all night. E-mails at nighttime for the next day, like 10 p.m. at night.” She also says she worked 50-hour weeks and was hospitalized for dehydration. “You’re like an employee, except you’re not getting paid. They’re kind of mean to you. Other interns have cried.” (The Row did not return a request for comment.)

This is the latest in a string of unpaid intern lawsuits — against Conde Nast, Hearst, and Elite Model Management, to name a few — that claim these internships, long a staple of their respective industries, violate state and federal minimum wage laws.


http://thinkprogress.org/culture/201...npaid-interns/

[twrx]

Do interns even get paid?

[Mukuro]

Do interns even get paid?

They get paid in work experience and a better resume. That's what an intern is. The whole concept of interns needing to be paid is a recent thing.

[-Kev-]

They get paid in work experience and a better resume. That's what an intern is. The whole concept of interns needing to be paid is a recent thing.

Yep people are stupid lol. These class action lawsuits, all they would lead to is less interns getting hired, if companies now have to pay. Some can afford it, like the Big 4 Accounting firms, I heard they pay their interns pretty well. But generally the point of internship is to boost your resume, not your bank account.

[.!WAR MIKEY!.]

if you was brought on as unpaid intern whats the deal? you signed up for it and knew what you were signing up for.

WTF you suing for? PITTY?

[Mukuro]

Yep people are stupid lol. These class action lawsuits, all they would lead to is less interns getting hired, if companies now have to pay. Some can afford it, like the Big 4 Accounting firms, I heard they pay their interns pretty well. But generally the point of internship is to boost your resume, not your bank account.

Exactly. All these lawsuits accomplish is giving people less chances to get their foot in the door and gain some real word experience.

[Mooshashi]

Would not bang.

[Willy Wanker]

Those self entitled ****s deserve to get sued. That's what they get for not participating in the Full House reunion.

[Mr Ehrmantraut]

Hope they get countersued by the best lawyers money can buy in a long drawn out court case.

Sick of everybody expecting handouts these days.

[Amazinger]

Interns don't get pay checks, unless they're prostitutes with on the bjob training


****in ******!