Orange County Employment Lawyers Blog
Internships can be one of the most beneficial learning experiences of a young person’s life, providing skills and experience 
unattainable in any classroom. However, some are trying to argue that these benefits mean more interns should go without payment for their work.
The U.S. Labor Department recently released a new set of guidelines that relaxes the requirements around paid internships. According to a Los Angeles Times report, the new guidelines do keep intact a series of factors companies should use to determine whether they have to pay their interns or not, referred to as a primary beneficiary test. In other words, the test determines who benefits the most from the internship: the intern or the company. But now instead of using these factors as the standard by which to judge the employer’s final decision, the merits will be determined on a case-by-case basis. Continue Reading ›
