by Tanya de Grunwald | Feb 29, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages, workfare
IS HOOVERING OFFICES “WORK EXPERIENCE” TOO? Concerns have been raised that job-seeking graduates may have been forced to work as unpaid cleaners as part of the government’s controversial ‘workfare’ Work Programme. The revelation comes as...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Feb 28, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages, workfare
SHODDY LETTER IS A POOR REWARD FOR FIVE WEEKS’ UNPAID LABOUR A young jobseeker has revealed publicly his reference from supermarket giant Asda, in which the author couldn’t even be bothered to get his gender right. Former music student Joseph Wilson had...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Feb 27, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Media and journalism, Pay Your Interns, Politicians, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
AND PAPER ATTACKS GUARDIAN REPORTER SHIV MALIK FOR HIS BRILLIANT REPORTING ON THE ISSUE Thousands of decent, law-abiding citizens have today been labelled ‘extremists’ and ‘militants’ in today’s Daily Mail for arguing that a day’s...
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 23, 2012 | Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages
IN BOTH GROUPS, ONE IN FOUR IS LOOKING FOR WORK A 21-year-old graduate now has the same change of being out of work as a 16-year-old school leaver with one GCSE, according to new stats released today. While the figures are unlikely to cheer job-seeking graduates, we...
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 15, 2012 | Charities and volunteering, Employers and recruitment, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
THIRD SECTOR’S TREATMENT OF INTERNS IS FAR FROM CHARITABLE, SHE SAYS *GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE* The legal loophole which currently allows charities to use unpaid interns must be closed, says the Labour MP Hazel Blears, who promised to push for a change in the law...
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...
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