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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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