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I have posted this in th epast, but since I don't know how long Brad & co. have been reading, I do so again... Why not hire one or two promising high school students out of good ol' Enfield High, and make them apprentices in the model department? (...) (25 years ago, 27-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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Where do I apply for this job? I have a sabbatical coming! Seriously, this is a darn good idea. (25 years ago, 28-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Sounds interesting. Gotta pay 'em more than minimum wage, though, especially in CT. I doubt many kids would even work for that. (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) How about work study / internship? I don't know if they are required to get paid or not. Scott S. (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Recruited from the ranks of soon to be AFOLs? Strikes me that was the point, not to hire people who need market wages to work there, but to hire people who love the brick already.... and just happen to be still in high school and therefore can (...) (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Internships I know don't require you to pay the student because it is part of their learning although many do pay students for internships. I think it really comes down to the profession. I know that IS/IT/MIS (whatever acronym you want) (...) (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Work Study is paid as well as Co-Op, I'm not sure about internships though I would believe they are also, And that there is some type of gov't control on what is paid :( (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Volunteer-work is illegal? Why? Or is it hust for high-schoolers..? Jasper (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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In the US I believe it is illegal to employ someone and pay them less than minimum wage, and I believe it is illegal for a for profit company to use someone as a volunteer. I don't make the laws, I just laugh at them. (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) I forgot, there is, or was, a thing called a "training wage". Dunno more about it than that. (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Marginal case. (...) You're joking. Right? Jasper (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Not intentionally. But it's a joke of a law, though. (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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Followups redirected to lugnet.off-topic.debate (...) Labor laws do allow a person to perform normally paid labour "gratis". This is effectively the same thing as volunteering. (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Jasper Janssen <jasper@janssen.dynip.com> wrote in message news:389fc259.966608...net.com... (...) I don't think so. If someone is working for a company, it should be paid, it should have its social insurance, etc., etc. Same here. Training wage is (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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