Our three-month, £2-a-day internship is only ‘work experience’, claims Time Out’s editor

Our three-month, £2-a-day internship is only ‘work experience’, claims Time Out’s editor

by | Apr 16, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Media and journalism, Pay Your Interns, Unpaid internships, Wages

THIS IS A “FUN” AND “VERY SOUGHT-AFTER OPPORTUNITY” SAYS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF TIM ARTHUR *GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE* The Editor-in-Chief of Time Out has defended the magazine’s controversial £2-a-day internship, insisting it is only “work...
Time Out intern to earn “princely” sum of £2 per day

Time Out intern to earn “princely” sum of £2 per day

by | Apr 13, 2012 | Employers and recruitment, fashion, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Media and journalism, Pay Your Interns, Unpaid internships, Wages

GRADUATE FOG CHALLENGES CHEAPSKATE MAGAZINE OVER SHAMELESS ADVERT *NEWSFLASH! TIME OUT’S EDITOR IN CHIEF INSISTS THIS INTERNSHIP IS JUST ‘WORK EXPERIENCE’ – SCROLL TO COMMENTS BELOW* The events and listings magazine Time Out has advertised for...
Hate workfare? You’re an ‘extremist militant’ says the Daily Mail

Hate workfare? You’re an ‘extremist militant’ says the Daily Mail

by | 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...
Simon Cowell faces Twitterstorm over X Factor’s unpaid interns

Simon Cowell faces Twitterstorm over X Factor’s unpaid interns

by | 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...
X Factor faces official probe over unpaid interns

X Factor faces official probe over unpaid interns

by | 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...
“Unpaid internships aren’t wrong” says the man who got sued for running them

“Unpaid internships aren’t wrong” says the man who got sued for running them

by | Oct 12, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Media and journalism, Pay Your Interns, Unpaid internships, Wages

BYLINES, CONTACTS, FREE TICKETS AND MEALS WERE FAIR REWARD FOR INTERNS’ WORK, HE CLAIMS A company founder has angered graduates by insisting that young people would shoot themselves in the foot if unpaid internships were banned. He also suggested that interns...