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(snip)"No paycheck, no benefits — and no protection from creeps. Unpaid interns can’t sue over sexual harassment at work because they don’t count as employees, a judge ruled.
Lihuan Wang, 26, said her boss at Phoenix Satellite Television’s New York bureau grabbed her butt and tried to kiss her while she was an unpaid intern in 2010. But Manhattan Federal Court Judge Kevin Castel tossed that claim last week, finding that only paid workers are covered by the city’s human rights law.
“Protection of employees does not extend to unpaid interns,” Castel wrote Oct. 3. He said the City Council has amended the New York City Human Rights Law several times in recent years to cover more situations but has failed to shield interns.
“This is terrible,” seethed Wang’s lawyer, Lynne Bernabei. “There is no logical reason to allow an intern who is young and vulnerable to be sexually harassed.”(snip)
With a Federal Court ruling now on record that unpaid interns are not entitled to 'employee' rights and protections, this decision probably has implications that go far beyond NY City laws !!!



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