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Exit fees Ep12 / Christie’s: Auction house dumps Sparta Global over exit fees

Exit fees Ep12 / Christie’s: Auction house dumps Sparta Global over exit fees

by Tanya de Grunwald | Feb 24, 2022 | diversity, exit fees, Graduate schemes, social mobility

WE WANT OUR LOGO REMOVED FROM THEIR WEBSITE, ADDS SPOKESPERSON Well, isn’t life funny? One of the world’s oldest auction houses has stepped up as a pioneer in the battle to end the nightmare of graduate exit fees. When we saw the Christie’s logo on...
Exit fees/ Ep11: Ouch! DWP grilled over FDM graduates ‘trapped’ in government department

Exit fees/ Ep11: Ouch! DWP grilled over FDM graduates ‘trapped’ in government department

by Tanya de Grunwald | Feb 22, 2022 | diversity, exit fees, Graduate schemes, social mobility

DEPARTMENT FOR WORK AND PENSIONS SPOKESPERSON SQUIRMS UNDER SPOTLIGHT * Update, 15 May 2022: We’re in the Sunday Times! Graduates hit by stinging ‘exit fees’ from recruiters (Don’t subscribe? Click here) * The Department for Work and Pensions has refused to...
Exit fees / Ep:10 Virgin Media O2: We’ll speak to FDM about exit fees

Exit fees / Ep:10 Virgin Media O2: We’ll speak to FDM about exit fees

by Tanya de Grunwald | Feb 21, 2022 | diversity, exit fees, Graduate schemes, social mobility

AND MOBILE PHONE NETWORK THREE SAYS RELATIONSHIP WITH SPARTA GLOBAL HAS ‘ENDED’ Are clients of the big ‘exit fees’ firms about to abandon them? Virgin Media O2 and Three have just announced they are moving to distance themselves from FDM Group...
Exit fees campaign/ Ep9: ‘I want my £14k back’ says Kubrick graduate who paid up to get out

Exit fees campaign/ Ep9: ‘I want my £14k back’ says Kubrick graduate who paid up to get out

by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 15, 2021 | diversity, Employers and recruitment, exit fees, Graduate schemes, Money, social mobility

‘I FELT RUSHED WHEN I SIGNED THE CONTRACT, AND WAS DEPRESSED BY THE TIME I LEFT’ A graduate who paid £14,520 in ‘exit fees’ in order to escape a job he realised was a mistake has written to his former employer asking for his money back. He...
Exit fees campaign / Ep8: ‘I’m at HSBC’ says graduate behind exit fees petition

Exit fees campaign / Ep8: ‘I’m at HSBC’ says graduate behind exit fees petition

by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 8, 2021 | diversity, Employers and recruitment, exit fees, Graduate schemes, social mobility

‘OVER 100 OF US ARE HERE – AND WE’RE NOT FREE TO LEAVE’ The graduate who started a petition against ‘exit fees’ that has attracted more than 6,000 signatures is currently ‘trapped’ on a placement at HSBC that he is...
Exit fees campaign / Ep4: Big Issue and Good Law Project founders back us up

Exit fees campaign / Ep4: Big Issue and Good Law Project founders back us up

by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 11, 2021 | exit fees, Graduate schemes, Mental health, Money, social mobility, Uncategorized

HEAVYWEIGHT CAMPAIGNERS AGREE: GRADUATES SHOULD NOT HAVE TO PAY TO LEAVE THEIR JOB Two of the UK’s best-known social justice campaigners have said that they support our campaign to Stop Exit Fees By Xmas, expressing anger and alarm that companies such as FDM...
Let’s #StopExitFeesByXmas! Our new campaign launches

Let’s #StopExitFeesByXmas! Our new campaign launches

by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 1, 2021 | diversity, Employers and recruitment, Employment rights, exit fees, Graduate schemes, social mobility

  JOIN US TO RAISE AWARENESS AND CALL OUT BAD EMPLOYERS Are you a graduate stuck on a programme you can’t leave without paying thousands of pounds to your employer, supposedly to cover the cost of your (crummy) training? Or if you took the risk and quit,...
Exit fees: FDM dumped by conference organisers?

Exit fees: FDM dumped by conference organisers?

by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 19, 2021 | Employers and recruitment, exit fees, Graduate schemes

FDM REP VANISHES FROM BOARD ROLE AFTER OUTCRY OVER EXIT FEES  Is the tide finally turning against FDM Group? A senior representative from the controversial IT outsourcing firm has mysteriously disappeared from the Institute of Student Employers’ board of...
Is FDM scared? Senior rep swaps in at ISE conference today

Is FDM scared? Senior rep swaps in at ISE conference today

by Tanya de Grunwald | Jun 30, 2021 | Employment rights, exit fees, Graduate schemes, social mobility

GLOBAL BOSS REPLACES UNIVERSITY MEMBERSHIPS MANAGER… TO HANDLE AWKWARD QUESTIONS? Is FDM feeling the heat from the controversy around their use of ‘exit fees’? The firm has replaced the planned speaker at their Institute of Student Employers (ISE)...
Trapped by ‘exit fees’ at FDM: A graduate’s story

Trapped by ‘exit fees’ at FDM: A graduate’s story

by Tanya de Grunwald | Jun 29, 2021 | Employers and recruitment, Employment rights, exit fees, Graduate schemes, social mobility

NOW FACING A £15,000 BILL IF HE QUITS, SAM* EXPLAINS WHY HE DIDN’T ASK MORE QUESTIONS WHEN SIGNING HIS CONTRACT  (*Not his real name, to protect his identity) Last week, we asked why the IT outsourcing firm FDM Group has been given a platform to speak at the...
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