Publisher Conde Nast has agreed to pay $5.8 million to thousands of former interns to settle a class action by two plaintiffs who said they were underpaid while working for the group's magazines. Under the settlement agreement that avoids a trial in US District Court in New York, each of the approximately 7,500 interns will be paid $700 to $1,900.
Conde Nast ended its internship program after Lauren Ballinger and Matthew Leib filed their collective lawsuit in June 2013, claiming the mass media group violated labor laws by paying its interns far below minimum wage. Leib earned just $300-500 for each of the two summers he interned for The New Yorker. Ballinger claimed she was paid only $1 per hour when she worked for W magazine in summer 2009.
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