by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 7, 2011 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Politicians, Unpaid internships
SHOCK NEW DOCUMENTS SHOW WARNINGS DATE BACK TO JULY 2010 Interns’ rights campaigners have accused politicians of “cowardice” after it emerged that they have been deliberately ignoring warnings about the damage unpaid internships are doing for A YEAR...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 3, 2011 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Wages
BOOTING OUT LAZY WORKERS COULD CREATE SPACE FOR KEEN BEANS A new report commissioned by the Prime Minister has suggested that it should be made easier for employers to fire unproductive or lazy workers — and replace them with hard workers who are keen to get...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 26, 2011 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Politicians, Unpaid internships
POT, KETTLE, DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER? Nick Clegg has lectured the PR industry about its exploitation of unpaid interns — yet Graduate Fog can exclusively reveal that his own party refuses to change its own behaviour and pay its own young staff a proper wage for...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 20, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships
CULTURE SECRETARY JEREMY HUNT BRAZENLY TOUTS MULTIPLE ROLES The Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt is advertising for multiple “constituency interns”, paying travel expenses only. The roles are targeted at recent graduates and involve “assisting the...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 17, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Politicians, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages
MEET THE ‘STOCKHOLM SYNDROME’ INTERNS: HAPPY TO WORK FULL-TIME FOR FREE Seven former interns from the recruitment company Reed have told Graduate Fog they were definitely NOT exploited during their months working there full-time, earning around £90 a week....
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 | 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 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 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...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Aug 25, 2011 | Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Universities, Wages
FUTURE GRADUATES WILL BE “VERY ANGRY YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN INDEED” A respected education expert has warned of a looming graduate “revolution” in the next few years, as hundreds of thousands of graduates discover that their degree is not worth...
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