by Tanya de Grunwald | Feb 20, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Politicians, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
BUT MINISTER IGNORES PUBLIC OUTCRY, SAYING SCHEME’S CRITICS ARE SIMPLY ‘JOB SNOBS’ Pressure on the government is growing after protesters and activists this weekend urged brands to back out of the controversial workfare scheme which force jobseekers...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Feb 15, 2012 | Charities and volunteering, Employers and recruitment, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
THIRD SECTOR’S TREATMENT OF INTERNS IS FAR FROM CHARITABLE, SHE SAYS *GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE* The legal loophole which currently allows charities to use unpaid interns must be closed, says the Labour MP Hazel Blears, who promised to push for a change in the law...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Feb 14, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Universities, Wages
STUDENT LOANS BOSS’s TAX DODGE SAVES HIM £26,000 EACH YEAR The man responsible for collecting debts from millions of graduates has been involved in an elaborate tax dodge on his £185,000 earnings – saving him the equivalent of the average graduate salary...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Feb 3, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Politicians, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
BUT WATERSTONES PULLS OUT OF THE PROGRAMME The government has insisted that its controversial work programme that sees young jobseekers being told to do unpaid internships or risk losing their benefits is NOT promoting forced labour, the Guardian has reported. The...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jan 31, 2012 | Business, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Wages
NEW FIGURES SOUND IMPRESSIVE – BUT COME MAINLY FROM BIG CITY FIRMS Graduate pay is set to rise to £26,000 this year, according to a new survey – but how many people do you know that are earning that much money? Does your salary even come close? The...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jan 26, 2012 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
FULL-TIME “CAMPAIGN ASSISTANT” TO BE PAID EXPENSES ONLY *Graduate Fog exclusive* Last week, London Mayor Boris Johnson attacked young jobseekers for lacking the “appetite” to find work – and blasted Cait Reilly, the graduate who is suing...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jan 25, 2012 | Careers advice, Graduate Fog, Graduate unemployment
BUY THE BOOK NOW! Good news for graduates – work is under way on a new book which promises to help you to find a job after leaving university, even in a recession. How to Get a Graduate Job in a Recession will be available from May 2012 exclusively via this...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jan 19, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment
APPLICANTS HAVE “SELF-INFLATED AIR OF IMPORTANCE”, CLAIMS COMPANY BOSS British graduates need to improve their work ethic if they hope to compete with their rivals from other countries, the boss of an international company has claimed. In a piece titled...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jan 15, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Politicians, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
PRESS HOUNDS GRADUATE WHOSE JOB CENTRE MADE HER WORK IN DISCOUNT STORE FOR FREE The geology graduate who is suing the government over an unpaid internship she was “forced” to do at Poundland as part of a government scheme has been savaged by the British...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jan 14, 2012 | Business, Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Politicians, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
TWO-WEEK UNPAID PLACEMENT AT DISCOUNT STORE MAY HAVE BEEN ILLEGAL A graduate is suing the government over an unpaid two-week work placement at Poundland which she was told to complete by her local job centre – or face losing her Jobseeker’s Allowance...
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