by Tanya de Grunwald | May 14, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Politicians, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages
POORER GRADUATES CAN NOW REPORT ADVERTS FOR UNPAID INTERNSHIPS AS GOVERNMENT FINALLY VOWS TO BACK YOUNG WORKERS Graduates who spot adverts for unpaid internships which appear to involve real work but pay less than the minimum wage can now report them to officials,...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 12, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
BIG BRANDS PANIC, FEARING INVESTIGATION, FINES AND PUBLIC SHAME Big brands that have been brazenly advertising unpaid internships – and the big job boards that carry these adverts – were feeling the heat today as a list of 100 big companies who have been...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 4, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Health and welfare, Housing, job hunting, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages, workfare
WHY ARE EDUCATED YOUNG PEOPLE RECEIVING WELFARE PAYMENTS? Recently graduated – and claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance, housing benefit or any other form of welfare ‘hand-out’? Do you consider yourself a striver – or a skiver? As the...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Mar 20, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Health and welfare, job hunting, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages, workfare
LAWYERS BLAST POLITICIANS’ SNEAKY “RETROACTIVE” LAW TO AVOID MASS PAY-OUTS The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) is trying to rush a ‘retroactive’ law through parliament so the government can avoid paying £130m in benefit rebates to...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Mar 18, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Housing, job hunting, Parents and family, Politicians, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages
YOUNG, RURAL JOBSEEKERS HAVE BEEN FORGOTTEN, SAYS ONE GRADUATE It’s tough finding a proper, paid graduate job at the moment, wherever you live. But when home is a long way from the nearest big city and you don’t have a car, rural graduates say it’s...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Mar 13, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Health and welfare, job hunting, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
EXCLUDED OUTNUMBER THE EXPLOITED THREE TO ONE, NEW SURVEY FINDS It’s official – the number of young people who can’t afford to intern unpaid in London is far greater than the number who can. A must-read new survey – by the Unions21 Fair Work...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Feb 20, 2013 | Charities and volunteering, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
…YET INSISTS IT IS “COMMITTED TO CHALLENGING INEQUALITY IN EVERYDAY LIFE IN THE UK” The British Institute of Human Rights has advertised for four interns to work for up to four days a week for at least three months, paid only £5 a day. This is while...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Feb 18, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Politicians, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages, workfare
POUNDLAND INTERN ATTACKED AGAIN BY IAIN DUNCAN SMITH Intern hero Cait Reilly sees herself as “too good” to stack supermarket shelves, the work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith has said, hitting out AGAIN at the 24-year-old geology graduate who...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Feb 12, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Politicians, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages, workfare
GOVERNMENT SCHEMES ARE ILLEGAL AND PARTICIPANTS CAN DEMAND BACK PAY, JUDGES RULE An intern who says she was forced to work for free at Poundland as part of a government scheme has won her appeal, leaving the coalition’s back-to-work schemes in tatters. Cait...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jan 2, 2013 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
CAN YOU AFFORD TO GET TO WORK? Low-paid workers – including graduates at the start of their careers – will be disproportionally impacted by large increases to train ticket prices introduced today, experts have warned. The average season ticket will...
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