Condé Nast settles lawsuit with former interns for $5.8 million

Condé Nast settles lawsuit with former interns for $5.8 million
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Score one for the interns: On Thursday, Condé Nast agreed to pay $5.8 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by thousands of former interns who say they were underpaid during their time at the company.

The lead plaintiffs were Lauren Ballinger, who said she earned about $1 an hour while organizing accessories at W magazine, and Matthew Leib, who said he was paid roughly $300 for a summer internship at The New Yorker. The settlement agreement covers around 7,500 interns, Reuters reports, and interns from 2007 on are expected to receive payouts of $700 to $1,900.

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.