{"id":265,"date":"2013-04-21T17:54:48","date_gmt":"2013-04-21T17:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mintonlawgroup.com\/?p=265"},"modified":"2013-06-06T17:55:08","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T17:55:08","slug":"6-legal-requirements-for-unpaid-internship-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mintonlawgroup.com\/?p=265","title":{"rendered":"6 Legal Requirements For Unpaid Internship Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My latest article in Forbes has published: \u00a0&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/theyec\/2013\/04\/19\/6-legal-requirements-for-unpaid-internship-programs\/\">6 Legal Requirements For Unpaid Internship Programs<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;[T]here are some very serious legal considerations every for-profit company \u2013including startups \u2014 must be aware of before attempting to use unpaid interns.<\/p>\n<p>Under federal law, every employee in America is entitled to a minimum wage, additional compensation for overtime and certain other benefits. An employment relationship will also have consequences for the employer relating to worker\u2019s compensation, discrimination laws, employee benefits, state labor laws\u00a0and unemployment insurance coverage. For these requirements not to apply, the employment relationship must\u00a0fall under applicable\u00a0legal exemptions.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Please read the whole thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My latest article in Forbes has published: \u00a0&#8220;6 Legal Requirements For Unpaid Internship Programs&#8220;. &#8220;[T]here are some very serious legal considerations every for-profit company \u2013including startups \u2014 must be aware of before attempting to use unpaid interns. Under federal law, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mintonlawgroup.com\/?p=265\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minton-law-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mintonlawgroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mintonlawgroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mintonlawgroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mintonlawgroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mintonlawgroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.mintonlawgroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"http:\/\/www.mintonlawgroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mintonlawgroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mintonlawgroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mintonlawgroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}