For-Profit Organizations Should Pay Their Interns to Ensure Compliance in Business and at Work

In my HR compliance travels, I’m often asked how a for-profit business without an in-house human resources professional can compliantly hire an unpaid intern. Aside from the fact that “hire” and “unpaid” are mutually exclusive, it’s by and large too complicated for most for-profit businesses to compliantly engage unpaid interns.

Instead: the strong recommendation for a private-sector, for-profit business to ensure compliance is to hire their interns as temporary /…