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...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jan 12, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
100 COMPANIES SIGN DEPUTY PM’s NEW PLEDGE ON FAIR ACCESS – BUT WHERE IS THE PROMISE TO END UNPAID INTERNSHIPS? Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg yesterday launched a new campaign to open up recruitment at some of Britain’s biggest companies to young...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 22, 2011 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Wages
A THIRD OF EMPLOYED GRADUATES “FRUSTRATED” BY MENIAL TASKS Concerns have been raised that firms which employ graduates are not making the most of their potential — as over a third of graduates say they were not given enough responsibility in their...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 20, 2011 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Politicians, Universities, Unpaid internships
VALUE OF A GOOD REFERENCE TUMBLES, AS REFEREES ADMIT THEY’RE TO SCARED TO BE HONEST Graduates who have worked hard to get good references from their university tutors and employers may have wasted their time, it has been suggested. Worse still, candidates from...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 15, 2011 | Business, Employers and recruitment, fashion, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
AND CRACKDOWN ON ILLEGAL INTERNSHIPS THREATENS SMALL LABELS, SHE COMPLAINS A fashion designer has angered graduates by appearing to suggest that fashion interns should work for the “love,” not money. She claimed it was difficult for the fashion industry to...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 14, 2011 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Pay Your Interns, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
LABEL”REVIEWS AND IMPROVES” POLICY FOLLOWING PRESSURE BY CAMPAIGNERS *GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE* Christmas has come early for fashion interns as the brand Stella McCartney — whose unpaid internship programme has been consistently criticised by...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 12, 2011 | Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Media and journalism, Pay Your Interns, Unpaid internships, Wages
TIMES COLUMNIST CAITLIN MORAN AND LABOUR MP STELLA CREASY AMONG THOSE WHO RT’D Simon Cowell faced a Twitterstorm during last night’s X Factor final, as our story about four unpaid interns working full-time on the X Factor set for the last three months was...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 10, 2011 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Media and journalism, Pay Your Interns, Unpaid internships, Wages
AND WE DEMAND AN APOLOGY FROM SIMON COWELL ** UPDATE: SINCE THIS STORY WAS FIRST PUBLISHED, X FACTOR INTERNS HAVE RECEIVED THOUSANDS OF POUNDS IN UNPAID WAGES (JUNE 2012) ** Officials have announced they will study evidence that X Factor has been employing unpaid...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 9, 2011 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Media and journalism, Pay Your Interns, Unpaid internships, Wages
SPOKESPERSON CLAIMS THEY WERE ‘NOT AWARE’ OF FOUR FULL-TIME UNPAID INTERNS The production company behind X Factor has claimed that they were unaware that there have been four unpaid interns working on-set, full-time for the last three months, assisting...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 8, 2011 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Media and journalism, Pay Your Interns, Unpaid internships, Wages
DOES SIMON COWELL KNOW? **GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE!** The team behind the X Factor has admitted to Graduate Fog that it employs at least four interns who work full-time, for three months, paid travel and lunch expenses only. The interns’ employer told us:...
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