by Tanya de Grunwald | Jun 27, 2011 | Charities and volunteering, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Unpaid internships
WANT TO ‘VOLUNTEER’ FULL-TIME UNTIL MAY 2012? A private company claiming to campaign for social justice has angered young workers by advertising for an unpaid intern. The successful applicant will work until May 2012 for no salary. The Centre for Social...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jun 24, 2011 | Charities and volunteering, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
WAIT – DIDN’T HE LIKE INVENT THE NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE LAW? Tony Blair – whose own government introduced the National Minimum Wage in 1998 – is at the centre of a new row about the use of unpaid interns within charities and non-profit...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jun 22, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
CHANGE TO THE LAW WILL CREATE JOBS, CLAIMS CONSERVATIVE MP A Conservative MP has suggested that workers should be allowed to ‘opt out’ of their right to be paid the National Minimum Wage, claiming that it would help to reduce unemployment as businesses...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jun 21, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Unpaid internships, Wages
BRAND OFFERS THEIR WORK EXPERIENCE ‘BOY’ AS A COMPETITION PRIZE In recent weeks, Graduate Fog has noted an unsettling trend for thoughtless brands treating youth unemployment — including graduate unemployment — as a bit of a giggle. (The BBC...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jun 16, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
ONE IN TEN BUSINESSES PLANS TO CULL YOUNG WORKERS Worrying news reaches Graduate Fog that businesses are planning to reduce their numbers of junior employees – suggesting that young people could be the first in the firing line in a new round of redundancies. And...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jun 15, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Unpaid internships, Wages
HIGH STREET RECRUITER FAILS TO APOLOGISE FOR SEEKING FORTY SIX INTERNS, PAYING WELL BELOW MINIMUM WAGE Since this website began, we have seen some shockingly brazen behaviour by big name brands, when it comes to their treatment and payment of their interns. But this...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jun 14, 2011 | Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment
GRADUATE EMPLOYERS NOW CONSIDER THOSE WITHOUT DEGREES – SO WHY DID YOU BOTHER WITH UNI? Jobs previously ear-marked for graduates are now going to school-leavers, according to a new survey. The research – by talent management consultancy SHL – is...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jun 9, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
LABOUR MP BACKS YOUR RIGHT TO BE PAID FOR YOUR WORK The Labour MP Hazel Blears has declared that unpaid internships are “bad for democracy.” After yesterday’s “Imagine a world without interns” rally outside Parliament, interns and...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jun 6, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Media and journalism, Unpaid internships
…AND ADMITS TO USING 6,000 UNPAID INTERNS IN THE PAST FOUR YEARS The BBC is feeling the heat today after the Telegraph reported that the corporation has employed 6,000 unpaid interns in the last four years – but still insisted that these workers had...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jun 1, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate unemployment, Unpaid internships
PLACEMENTS IN SYDNEY, BEIJING AND SHANGHAI COST UP TO £4,000 Growing numbers of recent graduates are paying thousands of pounds to companies that specialise in securing unpaid work placements overseas. The graduates pay up to £4,000 – often not including flights...
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