Andre Bates, head of the firm’s Employment Practice, was recently featured in the Daily Journal’s 2019 Top Labor & Employment Lawyers supplement

For many California companies, summer brings a fresh crop of young and enthusiastic interns eager to improve their future employment prospects by gaining industry skills and making new professional contacts. By tradition, many of these summer internships are unpaid. Can this practice continue in the current legal environment where California courts have steadily broadened the scope of workers who must be classified as employees and who are therefore entitled to the protections of California’s employment laws?

To read the full Daily Journal article titled "Are unpaid summer internships still legal?", click here.