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 | Dec 30, 2011 | Graduate Fog, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Unpaid internships
IS YOUR FAVOURITE GRADUATE FOG STORY ON THE LIST? We want to say a big thank you to everybody who has supported Graduate Fog this year – so THANK YOU! We love writing these stories – and seeing your favourites whizzing around the Internet makes us happy...
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 13, 2011 | Business, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Retail, Wages
400 APPLICATIONS – AND ONLY FOUR REPLIES A young jobseeker has described the 11 and a half months he has spent looking for work as “hell.” During that time, he says he applied for over 400 jobs but received only four replies – and got one...
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:...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 28, 2011 | graduate debt, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
MPs ADVERTISE 260 UNPAID INTERNSHIPS SINCE THE ELECTION As youth unemployment has soared, Britain’s elected MPs – from millionaire Tory cabinet members to Labour backbenchers – have been disregarding the National Minimum Wage law by employing unpaid...
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