{"id":3336,"date":"2010-06-23T10:46:09","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T14:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/?p=3336"},"modified":"2010-07-06T18:06:19","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T22:06:19","slug":"tip-of-the-week-employees-vs-interns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/2010\/06\/tip-of-the-week-employees-vs-interns\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip of the Week: Employees vs. Interns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many businesses consider having an intern due to budgetary concerns in hiring an employee. However, an intern is not free labor. An internship must be a learning experience for the benefit of the intern and not the employer.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Are interns entitled to benefits under federal law such as minimum wage, overtime pay, and a workplace free from discrimination?<\/li>\n<li>How does an employer determine if a legitimate employee relationship exists?<\/li>\n<li>What resources does the Department of Labor (DOL) provide to help employers make these determinations?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Get answers to these questions by listening to <em>Employees vs. Interns<\/em> in this month\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visionpayroll.com\/index.php?id=29\" target=\"_blank\">HRCast<\/a>, a recording provided by our team of HR Pros and available exclusively on <a href=\"http:\/\/visionpayroll.myhrsupportcenter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">MyHRSupportCenter<\/a>. You\u2019ll also learn the six key criteria the DOL uses to help determine if an intern must be paid.<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/visionpayroll.myhrsupportcenter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">MyHRSupportCenter<\/a> regularly, not only for our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visionpayroll.com\/index.php?id=29\" target=\"_blank\">HRCasts<\/a>, but also to get late-breaking compliance alerts, best practices to implement, and HR tools to use every day. If you haven\u2019t yet signed up and would like a free trial of <a href=\"http:\/\/visionpayroll.myhrsupportcenter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">MyHRSupportCenter<\/a>, contact <a href=\"mailto:info@visionpayroll.com\" target=\"_blank\">Vision Payroll<\/a> today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many businesses consider having an intern due to budgetary concerns in hiring an employee. However, an intern is not free labor. An internship must be a learning experience for the benefit of the intern and not the employer. Are interns entitled to benefits under federal law such as minimum wage, overtime pay, and a workplace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[410,1258,76,53,45,28,89],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3336"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3502,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3336\/revisions\/3502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}