Summer is nearly upon us, and with it comes a whole new crop of college graduates. That means that many of your clients may be considering offering internships. In fact, according to a recent survey by the National Association of Colleges and Employers, companies are planning to increase their use of interns by 8.5% this summer.
The majority of these companies are planning to pay their interns, but if you have clients who are considering unpaid internships, this is a good time to remind them of the strict rules and risks of doing so.
In most cases, interns must be paid. In order for internships to be legally unpaid, they must meet the following six criteria, as outlined in the Department of Labor's (DOL) fact sheet on Internships Under the Fair Labor Standards Act:
Over the past couple of years, the DOL has been cracking down on illegal unpaid internships, so it is important that your clients handle their internships properly. You may want to suggest that they hire interns on a contract basis and outsource the employment of those interns to a contracting back-office. That way, they can can avoid the risk of not paying their interns without taking on the additional costs (benefits, employer taxes, etc.) and administrative burdens that comes with making them direct-hires.
Debbie Fledderjohann is the President of Top Echelon Contracting, Inc.
Thanks, Debbie - good info. We might be bringing someone in for the summer and I thought we would have to go the paid route and this confirmed it. That was the plan anyway, but I see we would have been a bit hard pressed to justify point #4 possibly. (that seems a tough one in most scenarios?)
I'm glad you found our information helpful, Amber!
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