A former Saturday Night Live intern and a former MSNBC intern are the latest unpaid workers to take to the courts. On Thursday, Monet Eliastam and Jesse Moore filed a proposed class action complaint against NBCUniversal in federal court in New York. The 19-page complaint (read it here) comes on the heels of a June 11 summary judgment against Fox Searchlight in the ongoing Black Swan interns case as well as more recent intern suits against Conde Nast and Warner Music from interns who claim that they were performing employee duties for no wages. "I think the companies are going to start to have to understand they have to pay their workers, whether they call them interns or not," Eliastam and Moor's attorney Justin Swartz told me today. The lawyer also represents the plaintiffs in the Black Swan case. MORE
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