Viacom Settles Internship Lawsuit

Viacom will be putting up more than $7.2 million to end a lawsuit over unpaid internships. If approved by a New York federal judge, the settlement will represent the most amount of money ever set aside to resolve labor claims on the internship front, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The class-action lawsuit was filed by Casey Ojeda, who was an unpaid intern at MTV from September 2011 to January 2012. He was joined by more than 300 other individuals.
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According to a memorandum in support filed on Wednesday, $900,000 of the total will be going to law offices of Virginia & Ambinder and Leeds Brown for handling the case.

The average settlement payment in the NBCU case was $505. For Viacom, it's $505 for each traditional academic semester in which the participating claimant was an intern