Labor lawyers have been sounding a warning in recent years that employers could be violating the law by hiring unpaid interns to do work that ordinarily would be performed by a paid employee. And now a lawsuit seeks to put that argument to the test, contending that a 28-year-woman who says she worked up to 55 hours per week, without pay, as an intern at Harper's Bazaar last year must be treated like any other employee under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, according to Reuters. Xuedan "Diana" Wang seeks class action status for her suit, which was filed Wednesday…
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