Fox Searchlight Can Appeal Ruling on Unpaid Internships
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Fox Searchlight Pictures Inc. can immediately appeal findings that some unpaid interns should have been classified as employees and paid, a federal judge said.
U.S. District Judge William H. Pauley in Manhattan filed an order today allowing the action. Pauley’s said his ruling in June that internships must meet a strict test to be exempt from minimum-wage laws conflicted with one by U.S. District Judge Harold Baer Jr. in a similar case against publisher Hearst Corp. and the differences should be addressed by a higher court.