Author: Brynn Stylinski Contributing Member University of Cincinnati Law Review
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requires employers to pay every employee a minimum wage and to pay overtime for any hours worked over forty hours per week. However, whether a worker qualifies as an employee has been debated for years.[1] Earlier this year, the Second Circuit reversed a New York district court’s finding that a group of unpaid interns were employees under the FLSA and thus entitled to minimum wage and overtime payments (employee wages).[2] Continue reading “To Pay or Not to Pay: Should Interns be Considered Employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act”