News on unpaid internships in the United States: A change of course in the case of «Black Swan» against Fox?

Abstract

A new ruling of the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit of the United States on the «Black Swan» case, on 2 July 2015, could pave the way for entrepreneurs for making agreements with educational institutions on which the trainees could receive only academic credits instead of a salary, perpetuating a system of student work abuse. The next step is that the question shall be submitted, as decided by the applicants, to the Second Circuit in full (not just a panel of three judges as in the previous resolution), and finally could be reviewed by the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has not ruled on an issue like this since 1947. In short, for interns in «Black Swan», the battle is far from over.