Another point we ran into when researching the possibility of using interns from retail training programs for our gift shop--according to the Fair Labor Standards Act, unpaid interns are considered "trainees," must be supervised by a trained professional at all times and may not displace regular employees; also, the employer "derives no immediate advantage from the activities of students and on occasion the operations may actually be impeded by the training," and that the intern is not working more than 50% of the time, instead, is in a "learning or shadowing mode." Julia Moore Indianapolis Art Center