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Labor/Employment

Oct. 28, 2014

NBC intern settlement may encourage more lawsuits

The writing could be on the wall for high-profile companies that have long relied on unpaid intern labor.


By Matthew Blake


Daily Journal Staff Writer


The writing might be on the wall for major employers - especially entertainment studios and sports teams - that hire unpaid interns, after a multimillion dollar settlement between NBCUniversal Inc. and thousands of its former unpaid interns.


NBC is expected to fork over $6.4 million to interns in most states who worked without compensation for productions such as "Saturday Night Live" after...

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