Everyone’s waiting for a federal appeals court to decide if unpaid interns can band together to sue former employers for back wages. But for two contestants in the intern wars, the suspense was apparently too much to bear.
On Wednesday plaintiffs lawyers at Outten & Golden unveiled a $6.4 million class action settlement with NBCUniversal Media LLC—the first major deal with an employer since the intern litigation began to heat up a couple of years ago. If approved by a federal judge in Manhattan, the settlement would be split between three subclasses that include nearly 8,000 interns who worked on “Saturday Night Live” and other shows beginning between 2007 and 2011.
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