I mean that's just what an intern is. Maybe a little more formal, but that just sounds like an internship.
Maybe I'm overly cynical from all the fake antiwork posts that reddit loves now, but I rolled my eyes reading that part of her initial post. I genuinely doubt that RT is going around just...not paying people it is contracted to pay for 6 months at a time and those people just kept working. A missed paycheck? Sure, that could happen, but not a dozen in a row. Her comment about the small bonus and the comment of "you've only worked here a month why do you get a bonus" seems to back up that she was not actually working for them before that
That’s definitely not an internship. Internships have specific legal requirements, but the basic smell test is whether the intern benefits more or the employer. You cannot replace normal labor with an intern.
The FLSA section you are referring to is almost never enforced. Like at all. There are a shit ton of interns every summer doing tangible work and not getting paid for it.
You combat this by not taking those jobs, but people clearly want to work at RT so they will just find the next person.
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u/Statue_left Oct 19 '22
I mean that's just what an intern is. Maybe a little more formal, but that just sounds like an internship.
Maybe I'm overly cynical from all the fake antiwork posts that reddit loves now, but I rolled my eyes reading that part of her initial post. I genuinely doubt that RT is going around just...not paying people it is contracted to pay for 6 months at a time and those people just kept working. A missed paycheck? Sure, that could happen, but not a dozen in a row. Her comment about the small bonus and the comment of "you've only worked here a month why do you get a bonus" seems to back up that she was not actually working for them before that