by Tanya de Grunwald | Mar 23, 2012 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
TREASURY MINISTER CLAIMS ADVERTISING HIS SIX-MONTH, EXPENSES-ONLY PLACEMENT IS “PERFECTLY REASONABLE” Are these guys for real? Treasury minister David Gauke — the MP in charge of ensuring that HM Revenue and Customs clamps down on employers who...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Feb 17, 2016 | Unpaid internships, Wages
BACK PAY IS OFTEN AWARDED, BUT PENALTIES ARE VERY RARE Three media interns are celebrating as their former employer has been fined nearly £9,000 after the trio of designers worked for three months unpaid. The penalty is one of the largest Graduate Fog has ever heard...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 18, 2012 | Employers and recruitment, fashion, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
BUT WAS IT REALLY AN “ISOLATED INCIDENT” AS THEY CLAIM? Harrods has become the latest big brand to award back-pay to a former intern as part of our Justice for Interns campaign. The £1,800 payment means Graduate Fog and Intern Aware have now won more than...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 19, 2012 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Media and journalism, Unpaid internships, Wages
INTERN PACKED CLOTHES IN THE STOCKROOM AND TRAINED HER OWN REPLACEMENT An intern who worked at NOW magazine has been awarded £750 of back pay after signing up for our Justice for Interns campaign. IPC Media, the magazine’s publisher, admitted she had carried out...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 18, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Unpaid internships, Wages
MAGAZINE PUBLISHER, AUCTION HOUSE AND TECH GIANT PAY OUT — BUT WE CAN’T TELL YOU WHO THEY ARE **GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE** Three big companies have written cheques totalling nearly £3,000 to a group of interns who challenged them for failing to pay the...
by Tanya de Grunwald | May 23, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Politicians, Retail, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages
JOIN ‘JUSTICE FOR INTERNS’, OUR NEW CAMPAIGN Have you interned for a well-known brand, celebrity or a high-profile MP? Then we want to hear from you! Graduate Fog and Intern Aware today launch Justice for Interns. This historic campaign will see the big...
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