by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 14, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Wages
NEW STATS SUGGEST GRADUATE JOB MARKET WILL BE EVEN WORSE IN 2012 Graduates still hunting for a job should crack on with their search before Christmas – as the latest figures show that things could be even worse next year. New figures from the Chartered Institute...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 9, 2011 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
CHAIN IGNORES QUESTIONS ABOUT ITS THREE-MONTH, UNPAID INTERNSHIP The high street fashion chain French Connection (FCUK) has advertised a full-time, three month unpaid internship on their company website — and ignored multiple emails from us asking how they feel...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 7, 2011 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Politicians, Unpaid internships
SHOCK NEW DOCUMENTS SHOW WARNINGS DATE BACK TO JULY 2010 Interns’ rights campaigners have accused politicians of “cowardice” after it emerged that they have been deliberately ignoring warnings about the damage unpaid internships are doing for A YEAR...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 3, 2011 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Wages
BOOTING OUT LAZY WORKERS COULD CREATE SPACE FOR KEEN BEANS A new report commissioned by the Prime Minister has suggested that it should be made easier for employers to fire unproductive or lazy workers — and replace them with hard workers who are keen to get...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 1, 2011 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
NEW EVIDENCE FORCES CHAIN TO BREAK THEIR SILENCE OVER POLICY ON INTERNSHIPS River Island has been forced to respond to our questions about their policy on internships after a former intern posted a diary of an internship with the retailer on a blog — and...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 31, 2011 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
BOSSES EARN YOUR MONTHLY WAGE IN JUST ONE HOUR! New research has revealed that the bosses of many top companies earn more in an HOUR than many of their young employees earn in a MONTH. The average executive earns £1,406 per hour – while the average chief...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 27, 2011 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Wages
“SKILLS SHORTAGE” IS A MYTH – EMPLOYERS SHOULD PAY MORE, TRAIN MORE AND EXPECT LESS A management expert has blasted recruiters for demanding too much of young candidates – and suggested that companies invest more in training and developing...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 26, 2011 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Politicians, Unpaid internships
POT, KETTLE, DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER? Nick Clegg has lectured the PR industry about its exploitation of unpaid interns — yet Graduate Fog can exclusively reveal that his own party refuses to change its own behaviour and pay its own young staff a proper wage for...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 25, 2011 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Pay Your Interns, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
WHY WON’T THEY GIVE US A STRAIGHT ANSWER ABOUT THEIR POLICY ON INTERNSHIPS? *GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE* The biggest challenge we have encountered with our Pay Your Interns campaign is getting big brand’s press offices to respond to our questions about their...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 24, 2011 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Unpaid internships, Wages
ALAN SUGAR PROMISES HE DOES NOT USE UNPAID INTERNS *GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE!* Lord Sugar has become the first high-profile business person to back our Pay Your Interns campaign by stating publicly that he does NOT use unpaid interns within any of his companies. His...
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