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 3, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Politicians, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
BUT WATERSTONES PULLS OUT OF THE PROGRAMME The government has insisted that its controversial work programme that sees young jobseekers being told to do unpaid internships or risk losing their benefits is NOT promoting forced labour, the Guardian has reported. The...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jan 26, 2012 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
FULL-TIME “CAMPAIGN ASSISTANT” TO BE PAID EXPENSES ONLY *Graduate Fog exclusive* Last week, London Mayor Boris Johnson attacked young jobseekers for lacking the “appetite” to find work – and blasted Cait Reilly, the graduate who is suing...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jan 15, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Politicians, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
PRESS HOUNDS GRADUATE WHOSE JOB CENTRE MADE HER WORK IN DISCOUNT STORE FOR FREE The geology graduate who is suing the government over an unpaid internship she was “forced” to do at Poundland as part of a government scheme has been savaged by the British...
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 | Jan 12, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
100 COMPANIES SIGN DEPUTY PM’s NEW PLEDGE ON FAIR ACCESS – BUT WHERE IS THE PROMISE TO END UNPAID INTERNSHIPS? Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg yesterday launched a new campaign to open up recruitment at some of Britain’s biggest companies to young...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jan 5, 2012 | Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
ER, NOT TO US THEY’RE NOT A Conservative MP has angered graduates keen to build careers in politics by declaring that internships within parliament are a “non-story.” The row erupted when he was challenged for advertising a six-month unpaid...
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...
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