Former Interns Sue Gawker Over No Pay, Allege Media Company Violated Federal Law
Posted in: Today's ChiliGawker Media and founder Nick Denton were slapped with a lawsuit this week from three former workers who allege that the company classified them as interns in order to avoid paying wages, thereby violating federal law.
The New York Post reports that the former interns suing Gawker filed a fair-labor suit in a Manhattan federal district court Friday, seeking remuneration for unpaid wages along with damages. The three plaintiffs have been identified as Aulistar Mark, Andrew Hudson and Hanchen Lu.
“Gawker employs numerous other ‘interns’ in the same way, paying them nothing or underpaying them and utilizing their services to publish its content on the Internet, an enterprise that generates significant amounts of revenue for Gawker,” the plaintiffs wrote in the complaint which was filed on behalf of all unpaid interns who have worked for the media company, according to Bloomberg.
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