NYC Passes Amendment to Protect Unpaid Interns Against Sexual Harassment
Newsweek—By Zach Schonfeld Following a legislative hearing last week, the New York City Council voted unanimously on Wednesday to pass an amendment extending sexual harassment and civil rights protections to unpaid interns. The bill amends the New York City Human Rights Law in the wake of a 2013 decision that Lihuan Wang, a former unpaid intern at Phoenix Satellite Television, could not bring a sexual harassment suit because she was not a paid employee. * * * ... the language of the bill has been criticized by advocates who argue that its definition of an intern is too narrow. It requires an...
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