Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Show Business Interns
Let’s say you want to get into the entertainment business. You’re young. You’re willing to do grunt work. You want to learn. You get hired as an intern - maybe you’re paid, maybe you work for free - but you end up doing the work of a regular employee. What does your boss owe you?
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readLet’s say you want to get into the entertainment business. You’re young. You’re willing to do grunt work. You want to learn. You get hired as an intern - maybe you’re paid, maybe you work for free - but you end up doing the work of a regular employee. What does your boss owe you? That’s the question at the heart of a class action lawsuit filed by a former intern against CBS and David Letterman’s production company. It’s the latest in a wave of intern lawsuits against the entertainment industry.
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The full episode
3 of 6Obama’s ISIS Plans, NFL Abuse Issues, and Creating Consumer Need- 0:00Obama’s ISIS Plans
- 9:39Is ISIS a Threat to the US?
- 16:58Show Business InternsYou’re reading this
- 23:48NFL’s Abuse Problem
- 30:37The Internet Takes On Domestic Abuse
- 42:27Creating Need for Products