Workplace Protection for Unpaid Interns Complaints of sexual harassment by unpaid interns against companies have been consistently denied. Current legal precedents force students who accept unpaid internships to be part of a vulnerable, powerless, and at-risk population. Many cases are undocumented, interns are often helpless, feel inferior in the workplace, work without pay (often actually paying a fee for the honor of working for free), report to multiple superiors. With the hope of a future job offer, interns who experience harassment may repress their feelings resulting from this inappropriate behavior (Healey, 2011). According to David Yamada (2013), an intern must be paid directly by his or her internship site in order to afford protections against discrimination and sexual harassment guaranteed by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the American with Disabilities Act and future acts such as the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. Many fields of education require internships that place their students at risk. The Council on Social Work Education (2013) currently maintains that baccalaureate programs require a minimum of 400 hours and 900 hours for field education master's programs. Many of these positions are unpaid and place students in positions of helplessness as they complete their education. Oregon Extends Some Employee Protections to Interns Performing Work for Educational Purposes Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber signed House Bill 2669 into law on June 13, 2013, immediately signing it into law, protecting interns from discrimination and harassment sexual (HB 2669 A, n.d.). After unanimous approval in both the House and Senate, Oregon became the only state to offer these protections to interns.Policy Go...... middle of document......ca.org/article /how-unpaid-interns-un-protected-against-sexual-harassmentHB 2669 A. (nd). Retrieved December 1, 2013, from the 2130 Regular Session of the Oregon State Legislature: https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2013R1/Measures/Overview/HB2669Littler Mendelson (2013, June 21). Oregon passes job protection law for unpaid interns. Retrieved from http://www.littler.com/files/press/pdf/2013_06_ASAP_OR_Passes_Workplace_Protection_Law_Unpaid_Interns.pdfOregon Advocacy Commissions Office. (2013, May 9). Testimony in support of HB2669, May 9, 2013; House Rules Committee. Retrieved from http://www.oregon.gov/OAC/PDFs/HB%202669,%20Intern%20Protections%20OAC%20testimony%205.9.13.pdfYamada, DC (2013) The Legal and Social Movement Against Unpaid Internships. (Research Paper 13-34). Retrieved from Social Science Research Network: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2338646