After allegedly being fired from her unpaid position as a New York City Council intern for labor organizing that aimed to push the legislative body to pay her and her colleagues for their work, Mina Farahmand is now taking the city to federal court to seek wages there.
Farahmand, 21, filed a class action claim earlier this week under the Federal Labor Standards Act, asking Manhattan’s federal court to force the city to pay its $17/hour minimum wage to her and hundreds of other unpaid interns that the city legislature has employed over the years. She sees it as the next logical step in her fight to end the city’s practice of using unpaid labor to run its legislative body.
