Unpaid Wages
Claim Filed by Former Interns in New York
Courts Against David Letterman
Interns
have traditionally been used by businesses
to give college students an audition to
possibly hire them for a full-time position
upon their graduation. The best internships
paid a nominal wage while the other
internships did not. However, when the
recession hit several years ago, New York
City businesses began looking to interns as
a source of free labor to help improve their
bottom lines. They fired full-time
professionals and began exploiting students
from nearby colleges. Class action lawyers
have taken note of the illegal abuses of
intern labor and filed lawsuits to hold them
accountable.
David
Letterman is allegedly among those that have
decided to take advantage of the youngest
and brightest minds in our country. He is
now in the middle of a class action lawsuit
with dozens of former interns for unpaid
wages and overtime after working 40+ hour
weeks. The New York City employment law
attorneys filing the lawsuit claim that
Letterman and his production company,
WorldWide Pants, supplanted their salaried
talent for free talent that was just looking
for the opportunity to get into the
business.
Making
students replace full-time staff without
compensation is immoral and illegal. Class
action lawsuits provide disenfranchised
employees with the opportunity to recover
the compensation they deserve for their
businesses. Companies should not be able to
earn profits from interns that get no share
in the earnings for all of their hard work.
There has
been a trend for past and current New York
City interns to speak with experienced
employment law attorneys to learn about
their rights to file a
class action lawsuit to recover fair
compensation for their labor. Employers have
a moral and legal responsibility to
compensate internships whether the company
is in the entertainment industry, like
WorldWide Pants, or in any other business
sector.
The
lawsuit against Letterman for
unpaid labor and overtime to interns is
not the first and certainly won’t be the
last. It is expected that an increasing
number of class action lawsuits will be
filed against businesses that have decided
to abuse college students by overworking and
underpaying them.
The
employment law attorneys at
Hepworth, Gershbaum & Roth help you
recover compensation from employers that
took advantage of you as an intern. Call us
at 212-532-3801 or
contact us online to schedule a free
initial consultation. We assist clients in
New York and throughout the US.
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