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Workers’ and Unemployment Compensation
Workers’ compensation boards have found that interns contribute enough to a company to make them employees. It’s wise to cover interns under your workers’ compensation policy even though you aren’t required to do so. Student interns are not generally eligible for unemployment compensation at the end of the internship.