If you are an intern seeking employment, yelling “Fuck you!” to your boss, let alone your boss’s boss’s boss, is probably not a great idea. However, if that man is Donald Trump, a cancer metastasizing over the United States and a man responsible for imprisoning babies at the Texas border, then telling him to fuck…
In 2014 Linney Warren, a former intern at Marc Jacobs, sued Marc Jacobs International LLC for allegedly violating New York Labor Law, claiming the company misclassified interns as “exempt from minimum wages and overtime compensation” while having them do the work of a paid employee. On Wednesday, former Marc Jacobs…
Ivanka Trump’s copy intern Quincy Bulin is currently on her third unpaid internship, so she really knows the ups and downs of saving money when you’re not receiving a pay check of any kind. Her article for Ms. Trump’s website on the subject is attracting a fair amount of harrumph-y indignation.
On Friday, Missouri’s House Speaker Todd Richardson (R) recommended that members and staff of the chamber have mandatory sexual harassment training. Though a surprisingly progressive action, Richardson’s decision was in response to two sexual harassment scandals in the chamber this year, both involving interns. “While…
After a predictably huge amount of public outrage, the Missouri House is dropping the idea of proposing a dress code for interns to cut down on all the sexual harassment by lawmakers. St. Louis Public Radio reports that House Speaker Todd Richardson nixed the idea, saying that although several Republican lawmakers…
In the embarrassing wake of two scandals involving two different Missouri lawmakers who have both been forced to quit after accusations that they sexually harassed their interns, the Missouri House is discussing instituting a new dress code. For the interns. That’s it. That’ll do it.
Dualstar Entertainment Group, the licensing and manufacturing company owned by Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, has been targeted in a class action suit that alleges wage theft on behalf of about 40 current and former interns. The twins recently won the CFDA award for Womenswear Designer of the Year for their luxury label,…
Condé Nast has settled their intern lawsuit for an undisclosed sum. We get nothing: no dramatic court depositions, no angry emails, no intel on what kind of cushy lives those who sued will get to lead from now on and definitely no novels that will be eventually be optioned into movies starring Meryl Streep. Sigh.
A former intern is suing the fashion house founded by the late designer Alexander McQueen over wages she says she owed for four months of work.
Interns are a hot topic right now: At Bank of America in London, an intern died after working 72 hours straight. Condé Nast recently decided to stop paying interns. Diddy's record label is being sued by a former intern, who claims she was never paid. And Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In organization made waves when they…
Bobby Allyn, the courts reporter who broke the Jack White/Karen Elson kerfuffle, was literally in the middle of working on the piece for the daily paper in Nashville when he got word that HR needed to see him. Unrelated to performance, he was being laid off, and with a goodbye kiss of zero-fucking-dollars of…
Another day as summer wanes on, another intern lawsuit. Two interns who worked at W Magazine and The New Yorker are suing the publications' parent company, Condé Nast, requesting they be paid back wages, interest and attorneys' fees for the work they performed.
A New York Federal Judge both ruled for the two Black Swan interns suing Fox Searchlight Pictures and gave class certification to a number of interns who had worked at the company in another win for unpaid interns across America on Tuesday.
Have you ever wondered what it's like to be a Wall Street intern? You're in luck, because they're on Instagram.
Anthony Weiner's mayoral campaign is seeking interns to organize house parties, recruit volunteers, and utilize social media "to enhance our message" — and, we assume, decrease technological mishaps, particularly of the dick pic-related variety.
Unpaid internships are becoming a more and more sadly prominent fixture in the life of college students and recent college grads. Oftentimes, they feature batshit insane bosses, demeaning tasks, and/or a the gradual deflation of a young individual's dreams. Sometimes they feature office pets who are better treated…
These NBC interns have to find something to discuss as they sit in for a run through, but their best efforts to mull over some inoffensive happening in pop culture are thwarted by a Batman nerd, who nasally spouts opinions about the movie as a whole ("There is way too much happening inside it"), as well as Anne…
Hey, remember that time your boss asked you to hold his hand and go with him to his favorite "make-out spot" and you didn't mind because he was being totally "paternalistic and nonsexual"?
We're all well-versed in the predictable shenanigans of The Devil Wears Prada. It's really no secret that assistants in the fashion and media industry work long hours, slogging away well into the night to complete menial assignments dished out by their superiors with little or no thanks, and some of the time, little…
