AU where someone calls out Uwabami for illegal exploitation of minors.

This has the same vibe of that Mei ask last time... Like either I am to assume that 1- UA can make so much money on televising their students gladiator matches and illegally not paying them but that's ok because uhhhhhh, 2- that it's just legal for UA to do that and because it is legal it is also moral and totally ok, or 3- it's an au where UA is not so exploitative and everything is fixed except just Uwabami is as bad as before.... Ok we'll do something like three because it could be interesting to explore but anyway.

1) UA is very careful with their students images. As part of enrollment, UA has licencing of the students, to be surrendered back to them on graduation. Additionally, part of the money the students generate for the school is kept for the students in an account paid when they leave in order to get started on their career. This is actually part of why UA is such the coveted school for hero students. It doesn't just come with prestige and a better chance of connections, it starts you out with a nest egg of money as you begin sidekicking.

2) for this reason, there's a lot of legalities with internship agencies, worked out where the agency can get a certain amount of allowed use of the student image. The work week study of unlicenced students is not an internship covered by this agreement.

3) so when Uwabami gets some sponsorship products, she suggests Momo and Kendo practice doing ad runs and video shooting, because that's part of her hero work she figures the girls don't learn at UA, which would be focused on field practice during training. Problems and faults that follow are thus: Uwabami did not explicitly tell the team these were to be practice ads and the girls were not released to do this, which she should have. The team did not double check what the plan was for the run, which they should have considering Uwabami also did a run with just her, assuming that more hero girls were better. The legal part of the agency did not double check what they actually had permission for before approving the ad to run, since surely they wouldn't end up with anything that wasn't, and no one checked to see if the girls had been paid. The sponsor company actually also realized they probably didn't have permission and weren't paying the girls, but ran the numbers and figured it would be more profitable to not send any warning notice to replace the ad run and just let Uwabami eat the backlash if anyone noticed. The system failed the girls in many places because it was not built to protect them to begin with.

4) Someone noticed. Specifically, UA and Nedzu noticed. And Nedzu would have acted anyway, but he also does have the benefit of this making UA look a little better, very attentive to student safety and needs.

5) Uwabami has to pay out a hefty fee, pull the sponsorship run, and formally apologize for the mistreatment, with not being able to work with UA the next year for the workweek. Momo and Kendo aren't sure it makes them feel any better, though Kendo at least is happy with getting paid more.