The US Department of Labor is in the process of becoming a “friendlier” place. One such change has come in the form of a new test to determine if an intern can be an unpaid intern or if they should be paid.
No longer six factors
In 2011 I wrote a post called Unpaid Internships Are Possible, If You Jump Through All the Hoops. In this post, I talked about the six-factor test that made it difficult for any company to employ a student as an unpaid intern. It was possible, but not easy. On January 5, 2018, the USDOL instituted new guidance for “for profit” companies to use students as interns.
