| Attention College Students and Recent Grads: The Unpaid Internship Is Back Posted: 03 Jul 2015 12:57 PM PDT  As long as an internship is tied to education, and the intern benefits more than the employer from the arrangement, companies don't have to pay them, a U.S. appeals court stated on Thursday. This decision reversed a 2013 win for former interns Alex Footman and Eric Glatt, who sued Fox Searchlight for violating labor and overtime laws while they worked for free on the Natalie Portman film Black Swan. A panel of judges in the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals found the initial ruling's reasoning too limiting, which looked to six criteria presented by the Labor Department.
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| 1,400 India school teachers resign in fake degree probe Posted: 03 Jul 2015 02:27 AM PDT  Some 1,400 primary school teachers have quit in an eastern Indian state in recent months amid an ongoing investigation into fake qualifications, an education official said Friday. More resignations are likely before the end of an amnesty period that allows teachers in Bihar to quit to avoid legal action for falsifying their degrees, state education department principal secretary R.K Mahajan said. The High Court ordered an investigation in May into the state's 350,000 primary teachers on concerns that up to 25,000 had joined government schools without proper training.
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