by Tanya de Grunwald | Jun 29, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
GRADUATE FOG ON THE LYN BROWN SCANDAL – LIVING WAGE CAMPAIGNER RECRUITS UNPAID INTERN An MP who has supported the call for all workers to earn the ‘living wage’ (£8.30 an hour in London, £7.20 outside the capital) has been found advertising for an...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jun 28, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Media and journalism, Politicians, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages
BUT INDUSTRY EXPERTS CLAIM THERE’S NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT! A new survey has revealed that there are now 83 applicants for every graduate job – but industry experts have stunned Graduate Fog by insisting the new figures are not cause for concern, with one...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jun 24, 2011 | Charities and volunteering, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
WAIT – DIDN’T HE LIKE INVENT THE NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE LAW? Tony Blair – whose own government introduced the National Minimum Wage in 1998 – is at the centre of a new row about the use of unpaid interns within charities and non-profit...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jun 22, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
CHANGE TO THE LAW WILL CREATE JOBS, CLAIMS CONSERVATIVE MP A Conservative MP has suggested that workers should be allowed to ‘opt out’ of their right to be paid the National Minimum Wage, claiming that it would help to reduce unemployment as businesses...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jun 16, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
ONE IN TEN BUSINESSES PLANS TO CULL YOUNG WORKERS Worrying news reaches Graduate Fog that businesses are planning to reduce their numbers of junior employees – suggesting that young people could be the first in the firing line in a new round of redundancies. And...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jun 9, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
LABOUR MP BACKS YOUR RIGHT TO BE PAID FOR YOUR WORK The Labour MP Hazel Blears has declared that unpaid internships are “bad for democracy.” After yesterday’s “Imagine a world without interns” rally outside Parliament, interns and...
by Tanya de Grunwald | May 18, 2011 | Careers advice, Politicians, Uncategorized, Universities, Unpaid internships
EARNINGS TOTAL £500,000 FOR FLOGGING PLACEMENTS AT THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT Earlier this month, Graduate Fog accused universities of sending mixed messages about unpaid internships – saying officially that they are against them, whilst simultaneously promoting...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 24, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships
HOW NICE TO KNOW OUR PRIME MINISTER IS SLEEPING WELL AT NIGHT, WHILE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF YOUNG PEOPLE ARE EXPLOITED / EXCLUDED BY TIGHT-FISTED EMPLOYERS – AND HIS GOVERNMENT DOES NOTHING AT ALL TO SUPPORT THEM The Prime Minster has told the Daily Telegraph...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 6, 2011 | Charities and volunteering, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Media and journalism, Politicians, Unpaid internships
BEING AN UNPAID INTERN IS NOT A CRIME, SAYS GRADUATE FOG Nick Clegg has been ridiculed after it emerged that he himself had benefited from doing an unpaid internship early on in his career. The revelation came on the day that he was launching new measures to tackle...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Mar 24, 2011 | Charities and volunteering, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships
OSBORNE’S PLANS SOLVE NOTHING – AND COULD MAKE THINGS WORSE, SAYS GRADUATE FOG The Chancellor George Osborne has shown himself to be woefully out-of-touch with the reality of life for unemployed graduates. In the new Budget announced yesterday, he...
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