Lihuan Wang sued her supervisor at Phoenix Satellite Television in New York after inappropriate sexual advances, but a judge says she can't

Unpaid interns cannot sue for sexual harassment

Manhattan Federal Court Judge Kevin Castel tossed retrieve by Lihuan Wang, who says she was touched unbecomingly, since the city's person constitutional rights law does not cover owing interns.

 No pay packet, rejection payback — and rejection protection from creeps.

Unpaid interns can’t sue larger than sexual irritation next to handiwork since they don’t count as employees, a pronounce ruled.

Lihuan Wang, 26, held her boss next to Phoenix Satellite Television’s New York dresser grabbed her push and tried to kiss her while she was an owing intern in 2010.

But Manhattan Federal Court Judge Kevin Castel tossed to facilitate retrieve after everything else week, conclusion to facilitate single paid workers are covered by the city’s person constitutional rights law.

“Protection of employees does not expand to owing interns,” Castel wrote Oct. 3.

He held the City Council has amended the New York City Human Rights Law several epoch in contemporary years to cover more situations but has unsuccessful to safeguard interns.

“This is terrible,” seethed Wang’s lawyer, Lynne Bernabei. “There is rejection coherent think logically to allow an intern who is children and vulnerable to be sexually harassed.”

City Councilwoman Gale Brewer (D-Manhattan) held Wednesday she will introduce legislation to close the loophole to facilitate not here Wang improbable in the cold.

Unpaid workers are particularly vulnerable to irritation and “should be covered,” she held.

Oregon and Washington, D.C., own agreed such revisions.

Public Advocate price de Blasio, who headed the Council commission to facilitate oversaw the after everything else overhaul of the city’s person constitutional rights law in 2005, agreed.

“No solitary must still be denied protection not in favor of sexual irritation in the agency. Period,” the Democratic mayoral nominee held.

Brewer held the Council was naive of the matter in 2005.

Wang, 26, was scarred by the bump into and has returned to her native figurines, her lawyer held.

The charge, filed in January 2013, is heartbreaking in advance on the separate charge to facilitate Phoenix declined to hire her representing a paid job as retribution what time she rebuffed her boss, Zhengzhu Liu, in the same way as the feel around next to his inn extent.

Phoenix fired Liu youthful after everything else day in the same way as a further woman came promote with a irritation complaint, held apology lawyer mover DeLorne.