Ahead of this weekend's Google-approved summer movie/marketing stunt The Internship, a real-life Google intern has come forward with his side of what it's really like in the coding trences. And unlike the unpaid Intern horror stories we're so used to hearing, his time in Mountain View sounds like even more fun than hanging out with Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn.
A judge may have thrown out class-action status for the lawsuit against Hearst for using unpaid interns at its magazines, but the disgruntled former coffee-fetchers will continue the fight.
In a multi-layered, Foxconn-sprinkled update on its working conditions in Chinese factories, Apple has released a report that claims to have found no underage workers in "any of our final assembly suppliers." But Apple's supply chain goes much deeper.
A high-brow publishing house is seeking new interns. Job requirements include working for free, having no life, and keeping your mouth shut. So, you know, your soul.
The two interns suing Fox Searchlight for their unpaid internships on the set of Black Swan just had their case upgraded to a class action by a New York federal judge, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Previously unseen court documents show that the former Harper's Bazaar intern suing Hearst allege that she did not do her job that well, but her lawyer, who is crusading against the practice of unpaid internships in glamorous fields, says that doesn't change the law.
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