Former Condé Nast Interns Can Collect on Lawsuit

CALLING ALL INTERNS…: Former Condé Nast interns have until June 16 to file legal forms if they want to collect their settlement in the class-action lawsuit against their ex-employer. The $5.9 million settlement was reached last April, after 7,500 interns claimed that Condé Nast failed to pay them at least minimum wage and overtime when working for the publisher’s titles, which include Vogue, Details, Glamour and GQ. The well-publicized lawsuit caused Condé Nast to suspend its intern program as a result — sending editors into a panic over how they were going to get many of the more menial jobs done at their magazines. Those who nabbed one of the coveted internship spots from between June 13, 2007, and Dec. 29, 2014, received electronic forms via e-mail on Wednesday from Condé Nast with a detailed breakdown of the settlement, should they consent to collect the sum. Each intern could collect between $700 and $1,900, depending on the type of internship they had. The salary for a summer internship in the fashion closet of a magazine garners between $1,400 and $1,900 — the higher sum if no stipend was received. Non-closet summer interns will pull $1,000 if they got a stipend, and $1,400 without

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