[lovich]

Unfortunately the US government doesn't go after companies who do this in any significant matter and that makes the law worth as much as the ink it's written with. You can try suing but then you get known as the entry level employee whose litigious against their employers. The massive power imbalance between employee and employer prevents you from really exercising that protection.

The only industry I know of where interns get a decent deal is in software as companies are competing to try and get future employees, and those internships are only in the hot markets like SF

[s73ver_]

"You can try suing but then you get known as the entry level employee whose litigious against their employers"

Any company worth their salt should not care about this. Any company that would be upset that someone sued because their employer was treating them poorly is by definition a shitty company.

[lovich]

I am of the opinion that the Venn diagram of shitty companies and all companies is a perfect circle so I might be biased, but there is literally no reason a company wouldn't take that into consideration. They may not be aware of it, but if they find out they will view it poorly. The only employees who that doesn't apply to are executives and guys like levandowksi. For the average employee it's something to consider.

Otherwise it would be no problem to start a software union cause that's just making sure the company doesn't treat you poorly right? Yet I have not met a manager who hasn't stated that they wouldn't look on someone being involved with a union as a red flsg