Unpaid Intern Still an Employee under FEHA, Thanks to Barragan

Get CEs for reading this column, click here!An unpaid student intern in an occupational program used workers' compensation law to show that she was an employee for the purposes of her Fair Employment and Housing Act sexual harassment suit, according to a decision by a federal court in California.The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California granted the defendants' motion to dismiss Alicia Neronde's state law claims, but her Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) sexual harassment claim survived, thanks to workers' compensation case law. In short, her arguments ...