by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 11, 2011 | Charities and volunteering, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
THEIR SCIENCE ADVISERS PAY THEIR INTERNS JUST £100 A WEEK EXPENSES **GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE!** A recruiter in charge of hiring unpaid interns at the Royal Society — the UK science academy which advises the United Nations and the European Commission — has...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 8, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Unpaid internships, Wages
NEXT PHASE OF OUR ‘PAY YOUR INTERNS’ CAMPAIGN TARGETS HIGH-PROFILE BRITISH BUSINESS OWNERS Do Dragons’ Den judges Duncan Bannatyne, Peter Jones, Deborah Meaden, Theo Paphitis and Hilary Devey have interns working within their companies – and if...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 5, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
…YET CLAIM THEY ARE “PASSIONATE” ABOUT PROTECTING YOUNG WORKERS FROM EXPLOITATION *GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE* Topshop has admitted to hiring interns — and paying them only £3.50 a day. These young workers are expected to work five days a week from...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 4, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Unpaid internships, Wages
…YET TELLS US IT “DOES NOT HAVE AN INTERNS SCHEME” Tesco told Graduate Fog that it “does not have an intern scheme” — 10 days before the supermarket was forced to remove adverts for 145 unpaid “customer assistance”...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 29, 2011 | Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Housing, Politicians, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages
YOUNG, UNEMPLOYED SINGLES WILL BE LEAST LIKELY TO GET COUNCIL HOMES Unemployed graduates could find themselves at the back of the queue for council housing, if a new scheme being trialled in London is rolled out nationwide. The central London borough of Westminster...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 28, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Unpaid internships, Wages
YOUR MUM’S FAVOURITE DEPARTMENT STORE PROVES IT VALUES ITS YOUNG WORKERS Shock news reaches Graduate Fog – some employers pay their interns MORE then they need to by law! John Lewis has told our Pay Your Interns campaign that the company pays their interns...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 26, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Wages
HOW OLDER WORKERS WHO REFUSE TO RETIRE ARE STOPPING THE YOUNG FROM GETTING STARTED Changes to the default retirement age will block even more young people from entering the labour market, a new survey suggests. Bosses say that new Government rules, which come into...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 22, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Unpaid internships, Wages
BIZARRE RESPONSE FROM HIGH STREET FASHION CHAIN The high street fashion retailer River Island has refused to answer our questions about whether they have any interns working within their company. In a bizarre thread of emails from their HR department, the chain has...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 13, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Unpaid internships
TIP-OFFS FLOOD IN FOR OUR NEW ‘PAY YOUR INTERNS’ CAMPAIGN Graduate Fog has been swamped with requests from interns to approach their former employers as part of our new name and shame campaign Pay Your Interns. The campaign only launched on Saturday...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 10, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
GRADUATE FOG LAUNCHES NEW NAME-AND-SHAME CAMPAIGN TODAY Are you sick of doing unpaid internships that never lead to a job – just another unpaid internship? Are you tired of waiting for politicians to clamp down on the companies which exploit their young workers...
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