Unpaid student interns would be eligible for workers’ compensation, under a bill the Montana state House of Representatives passed unanimously.
The House on Wednesday voted 99-0 to send House Bill 283 to the Senate. The bill, by Rep. Fred Anderson, R-Great Falls, would mandate comp coverage for students participating in work-based learning activities and who are not paid wages by the business partner or school.
Anderson amended the bill on Feb. 12 to add language that would require the business and the school to “mutually determine and agree in writing whether the business pa...
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