Two former interns (one who worked at The New Yorker, another from W Magazine) sued the magazines’ parent company, Condé Nast Publications, this summer — claiming, among other things, that they were paid less than $1 an hour. The Condé Nast lawsuit is one of more than 30 cases that we’re tracking in our recently updated Internship Lawsuit Tracker.
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Read the court’s decision.
Controversy over pay/no-pay and conditions for interns. This example is from the USA but similar conditions apply in other countries around the world. Can these people even be given the title of 'worker' which is actually what they are striving to be?
The New Yorker cartoon is particularly ironic for SOYMB whose aim is to abolish wage slavery (ie wages) entirely, in favour of a truly democratic system whereby everyone contributes to society according to ability plus everyone takes from the common pool according to need.
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