Attorneys at the New York firm Outten & Golden have brought lawsuits against the Hearst Corporation and Fox Searchlight Pictures over unpaid internships at those companies.
Some of the most sought-after jobs, he will argue, are out of reach for many young people who cannot afford to work for nothing over long internships.
The US-based website Charity Buzz.comalone has sold well over 100 internships at American nonprofits, fashion houses, media outlets and so on – the most astonishing surely having been a one-week internship at Vogue with fashion doyenne Anna Wintour, which was snapped up in April 2010 for a cool $42,500.
David Lammy, the Higher Education minister, said: "It is particularly encouraging to see that over 2,000 internships and work placements with universities and local businesses have been approved, which will be an important part of the Government's proposals to increase the numbers available to students graduating this summer".
But there have been criticisms over how internships can be misused as unpaid labour by some employers - and warnings about the need for them to comply with the minimum-wage regulations.
Intern Sushi currently has over 10,000 internships available with companies nationwide including Warner Music Group, Billboard, FunnyorDie.com, Gary Sanchez Productions, Lionsgate Entertainment, Michael Stars and Draftfcb.
Now that the winter internships are over, here are some reflections from this year's MMH cohort.
The school gets involved in the Omaha community by offering over 450 internship and service-learning courses and donating over 170,000 hours of service annually.
Qantas will provide a minimum of 250 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander internships over 10 years, with 100 Indigenous internships over the first three years.
But I had seen The Hills episode where Lauren Conrad chooses a summer in Hollywood over an internship in Paris, and I knew that rejecting Oxford to spend another year at my liberal arts college outside New York City would have defined stupidity.
