By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 17:58 EST, 12 June 2013 | UPDATED: 18:00 EST, 12 June 2013 A judge has ruled in favor of two interns who worked for an Oscar-winning film and filed suit against the film’s production company claiming it violated labor laws by not paying them. Judge William H. Pauley III of Manhattan Federal District Court ruled Tuesday that Alex Footman and Eric Glatt should have been paid like regular employees because they did the same work as regular employees. According to the judge, the internship on the set of Black Swan was not educational and merely served the benefit of Fox Searchlight Pictures by offering them free labor.
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In a suit filed September 2011, Eric Glatt and Alex Footman claimed they worked as hard as paid Fox Searchlight Pictures employees and should be compensated accordingly
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Judge William H. Pauley III of a Federal District Court in Manhattan agreed and characterized the internship arrangement as largely only beneficial to the employer
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Now, a class action suit involving other interns for the production company may move forward
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