NYC Council unpaid intern claims she was axed after demanding $32 an hour ‘livable wage’

Fuente: New York Post

An unpaid City Council intern claimed she was axed after demanding she and her peers be paid $32 per hour — nearly twice the Big Apple’s current minimum wage. Mina Farahmand, a legislative intern for Manhattan Councilman Harvey Epstein’s office, said she was given the boot Wednesday after she sent Council Speaker Julie Menin a petition signed by 32 of her peers seeking “a living wage,” City & State reported. 3 Mina Farahmand said she lost her job this week after she began a campaign to ensure interns are paid.