Word: unpaid
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...that there shouldn’t be a price tag on the fairness sought in employment practices. If so, it’s clear that the current trend in internships perpetuates inequality and must be stopped. To best remedy this, the United States should eliminate unpaid internships, except for those at non-profits...
...advocate the restriction of unpaid internships because of the structural inequality inherent to acquiring these internships. Since richer students have the means to forgo wages, socioeconomic class determines, in large part, one’s ability to procure an internship. This unfair economic stratification means that poorer students and graduates often cannot afford to accept unpaid positions...
Federal and Massachusetts labor laws include standards unpaid internships must meet to be exempt from federal and state minimum wage laws. According to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division, unpaid internships at for-profit firms must fulfill six criteria. Among them, the experience must offer vocational training and not provide “immediate advantage to the employer...
Harvard students who do pursue unpaid domestic internships at for-profit companies may seek stipends from Harvard centers, such as the Institute of Politics. But, according to IOP Student Internship Chair Christopher W. Danello ’12, IOP Summer Stipend recipients do not generally work at for-profit companies...
...related problem that Harvard students seeking internships sometimes face is that some unpaid opportunities require students to receive academic credit in order to comply with minimum wage laws. Mount said that Harvard does not grant academic credit for internships, though students have arranged for independent studies with faculty in the past...