[liberationtech] Internships available at leading Palo Alto tech startup

John Sullivan johns at fsf.org
Fri Feb 22 11:05:35 PST 2013


Greg Norcie <greg at norcie.com> writes:

> Unpaid internships are illegal actually. Unless receiving course credit
> from a university  - then they're just morally unsound :)
>

They aren't illegal in the US (especially not for nonprofits), as long
as they are truly an educational / job skills opportunity for the
benefit of the intern. They are illegal if they are unpaid labor.

-john

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