How to check for intersection of two DataFrame columns in Spark

Using either pyspark or sparkr (preferably both), how can I get the intersection of two DataFrame columns? For example, in sparkr I have the following DataFrames:

newHires <- data.frame(name = c("Thomas", "George", "George", "John"),
                       surname = c("Smith", "Williams", "Brown", "Taylor"))
salesTeam <- data.frame(name = c("Lucas", "Bill", "George"),
                        surname = c("Martin", "Clark", "Williams"))
newHiresDF <- createDataFrame(newHires)
salesTeamDF <- createDataFrame(salesTeam)

#Intersect works for the entire DataFrames
newSalesHire <- intersect(newHiresDF, salesTeamDF)
head(newSalesHire)

        name  surname
    1 George Williams

#Intersect does not work for single columns
newSalesHire <- intersect(newHiresDF$name, salesTeamDF$name)
head(newSalesHire)

Error in as.vector(y) : no method for coercing this S4 class to a vector

How can I get intersect to work for single columns?