“You’re like an employee, except you’re not getting paid”.
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The 29-year-old twins, best known for their shared role as Michelle Tanner on the beloved 80s sitcom Full House, have built a billion-dollar empire under the brand name Dualstar Entertainment Group, churning out videos, books, hair care products, cosmetics and clothing.
“They’re really nice people”, said Lalani.
“They’re business people”, Shahista Lalani said of the actresses turned entrepreneurs, but asserted that the head technical designer for the The Row, under whom she worked, had not treated her as kindly: “She was very demanding”, she told Page Six. I was talking to her all day, all night. Emails at nighttime for the next day, like 10 pm at night…
Lalani also claims she was hospitalised for dehydration due to the long hours, which often involved working until 10pm.
“The head technical designer was like, ‘Go get my Advil”.
Lalani added in the filed documents: “When we weren’t doing something, they’d be like, ‘Organize the buttons in the back by color code.’ You don’t get a set 15-minute break”. “You’re like an employee, but you’re not getting paid”. Late last year, Conde Nast settled a suit for a reported $5.85 million filed by thousands of former interns who claimed the publishing underpaid them.
According to Lalani, she had witnessed fellow interns cry while performing menial tasks like going on coffee runs and making photocopies for their supervisors, some of whom she described as ‘kind of mean’.
According to the New York Times, that means “the internship should be similar to the training given in a vocational school or academic institution, that the intern does not displace regular paid workers and that the employer “derives no immediate advances” from the intern’s activities-in other words, it’s largely a benevolent contribution to the intern”.
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When approached with questions about the lawsuit, a Dualstar spokeswoman said the company was not yet aware and declined to comment on its intern program.
