by Tanya de Grunwald | Jun 22, 2016 | Employers and recruitment, Employment rights, General election and voting, Immigration, Politicians, Recession and economy, Universities, Wages
LEAVE, REMAIN – OR STILL UNDECIDED? TELL US WHICH SIDE YOU’RE ON Today – Thursday 23rd June – we are being asked to decide whether the UK should remain part of the EU (‘Bremain’) or leave (‘Brexit’). The outcome of the...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jun 2, 2016 | diversity, Employers and recruitment, Employment rights, Money, PR and marketing, social mobility, Unpaid internships, Wages
JUMP THROUGH HOOPS, EARN PENNIES, THEN ORGANISE YOUR OWN LEAVING PARTY (IT WILL “TURBO CHARGE” YOUR CAREER, APPARENTLY) UPDATE: We have friends in high places! PR guru Mark Borkowski has just tweeted that this advert is “not a good look” for...
by Tanya de Grunwald | May 25, 2016 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Employment rights, Graduate Jobs, Media and journalism, social mobility, Unpaid internships, Wages
YOUNG WORKERS SHOULD SIMPLY ‘REJECT’ UNPAID INTERNSHIPS Graduates are too willing to work for free and should simply “reject” unpaid internships, a PR agency boss has said. She also implied that graduates who don’t “value their...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 1, 2016 | average graduate salary, Business, Employers and recruitment, Employment rights, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Money, Recession and economy, Wages
YOU CAN VOTE AND JOIN THE ARMY – BUT YOU DON’T DESERVE ‘GROWN UP’ WAGES UNTIL YOUR 25TH BIRTHDAY. WHAT’S THAT ABOUT? Around 1.3 million workers will enjoy a historic pay boost from today, as the government’s new National Living Wage...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Mar 10, 2016 | Employers and recruitment, Employment rights, Graduate Jobs, leisure and hospitality, Money, Recession and economy, Retail, Wages, zero hours contracts
UNDER-25s ACCOUNT FOR TWO THIRDS OF LATEST RISE A new boom in the number of people depending on a zero-hours contract for their main job has hit young workers hardest, according to new research. This includes many graduates doing “stop-gap” jobs –...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 1, 2015 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Employment rights, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Law, professional development, Recession and economy, resigning and references
HAS CHANGE TO LAW GIVEN EMPLOYERS TOO MUCH POWER? Recent graduates are among the first casualties of a change in law that has made it too easy for bosses to sack their workers without good reason, effectively making them “disposable” and “vulnerable...
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