AA Internship offer

mshunter said:
You can justify it however you want. Working for free is still working for free. It's like cutting off your nose to spite your face. You are working when you are an intern.
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I agree with that fully. I want all interns to be paid with $ on top of being given further consideration for doing them. I just don't understand though why someone who has done an internship should not be hired.... They're just advancing their careers. It's no less worse in my eyes than people applying to crappy FO regional jobs to make a measly $20k/year. No one does it because they like it, they do it just to build their resumes so that they can get a better job.
 
FoodStampsPilot said:
I agree with that fully. I want all interns to be paid with $ on top of being given further consideration for doing them. I just don't understand though why someone who has done an internship should not be hired.... They're just advancing their careers. It's no less worse in my eyes than people applying to crappy FO regional jobs to make a measly $20k/year. No one does it because they like it, they do it just to build their resumes so that they can get a better job.
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Wish I had the ability to multiple quote from my phone. But the number one reason was already spelled out by HRDiva. They are illegal.

A company willing to violate labor laws is not worth my time. If they will do it in the form of unpaid labor, imagine what they are willing to do to paid employees. I feel it shows a lot about someones character if they are willing to work for a company that willingly breaks the law. History has shown us that not only do I not want to work for a company like that, but I also don't want to work with someone who would "work" for a company like that. You don't have to agree with me.
 
mshunter said:
I feel it shows a lot about someones character if they are willing to work for a company that willingly breaks the law.
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I agree with one exception,

Most college students do not know that unpaid internships violate the law, so I would not hold it against the student.
 
USMCmech said:
I agree with one exception,

Most college students do not know that unpaid internships violate the law, so I would not hold it against the student.
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I semi agree with you. Only reason there is some disagreement is in the eyes of the law, ignorance is no excuse. They had better have a good explanation for themselves.
 
How on earth do they get away with it then? I think it's bull that almost every airline internship that I've seen is unpaid. I'm sure the U.S. government knows about it.
 
reading the six 'key points' it would seem fairly easy for the company to do so.
 
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