by Tanya de Grunwald | Feb 27, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Politicians, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages, workfare
DISCOUNT STORE ‘WITHDRAWS’ AS MANDATORY PLACEMENTS ‘SUSPENDED’ Young jobseekers are claiming victory after it was announced that Poundland has finally backed out of the government’s controversial Work Programme, in which thousands of...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Feb 23, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
GRADUATE FOG SPELLS IT OUT TO THE PRIME MINISTER – BECAUSE SOMEONE HAS TO… The Prime Minister David Cameron – the leader of our great nation – is apparently unable to tell the simple difference between ‘work’ and ‘work...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Feb 21, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Politicians, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
SUPERMARKET MAN WAS “EXTREMELY GRATEFUL” FOR HIS “INVALUABLE” INTERNSHIPS WHEN STARTING HIS CAREER *GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE* The man who has been speaking on behalf of Tesco during the recent row about unpaid placements as part of the...
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 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 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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