How would you like a free butler, maid, chef and chauffeur? Try that and the Department of Labor will sue you for violating the minimum wage, overtime and record-keeping requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act — unless you are Justice Sonia Sotomayor. That’s right. Since 2010, she has hired unpaid interns as her servants. No other justice does this.Why Sotomayor should be impeached for this and many other reasons. Is there any brave Congressman out there that's what's to get rid of the minimum wage and replace with the Sonia Sotomayor Free Labor Act?
Justice Sotomayor’s job description, posted on a Latino Facebook page and other places, tells us that applicants do not need a law degree, but “a driver’s license is a must” because the intern’s duties will include running “errands outside of the Courthouse.” The intern will prepare “lunch and snacks for the Justice,” photocopy, and answer the phone. The intern is responsible for his own living arrangements and transportation. She pays them nothing.
First, her maid, butler and chauffeur are not employees of the Supreme Court; they are her personal employees. No federal statute authorizes Justice Sotomayor to hires personal aides. Yet, even if one would consider her maid or butler to be an employee of the Supreme Court, the Fair Labor Standards Act still applies. One section expressly includes all U.S. government employees while another section excludes “volunteers” of state agencies. There is no exemption for federal agencies.
The Labor Department does allow for some situations when an employer can employ unpaid interns, but none applies here.
Thursday, October 01, 2015
Justice Sotomayor Doesn't Believe In Minimum Wage Legislation: The justice who ruled against the use of unpaid trainees now has her own
The Washington Times reports: