by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 15, 2011 | Business, Employers and recruitment, fashion, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
AND CRACKDOWN ON ILLEGAL INTERNSHIPS THREATENS SMALL LABELS, SHE COMPLAINS A fashion designer has angered graduates by appearing to suggest that fashion interns should work for the “love,” not money. She claimed it was difficult for the fashion industry to...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 14, 2011 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Pay Your Interns, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
LABEL”REVIEWS AND IMPROVES” POLICY FOLLOWING PRESSURE BY CAMPAIGNERS *GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE* Christmas has come early for fashion interns as the brand Stella McCartney — whose unpaid internship programme has been consistently criticised by...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 13, 2011 | Business, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Retail, Wages
400 APPLICATIONS – AND ONLY FOUR REPLIES A young jobseeker has described the 11 and a half months he has spent looking for work as “hell.” During that time, he says he applied for over 400 jobs but received only four replies – and got one...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 21, 2011 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
WESTWOOD BACKS OCCUPY LSX PROTEST – BUT DOESN’T PAY HER OWN INTERNS Graduate Fog was surprised to hear that Vivienne Westwood is backing the Occupy LSX protest – when we revealed last month that the fashion designer refuses to pay her own interns,...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 9, 2011 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
CHAIN IGNORES QUESTIONS ABOUT ITS THREE-MONTH, UNPAID INTERNSHIP The high street fashion chain French Connection (FCUK) has advertised a full-time, three month unpaid internship on their company website — and ignored multiple emails from us asking how they feel...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 1, 2011 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
NEW EVIDENCE FORCES CHAIN TO BREAK THEIR SILENCE OVER POLICY ON INTERNSHIPS River Island has been forced to respond to our questions about their policy on internships after a former intern posted a diary of an internship with the retailer on a blog — and...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 31, 2011 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
BOSSES EARN YOUR MONTHLY WAGE IN JUST ONE HOUR! New research has revealed that the bosses of many top companies earn more in an HOUR than many of their young employees earn in a MONTH. The average executive earns £1,406 per hour – while the average chief...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 25, 2011 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Pay Your Interns, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
WHY WON’T THEY GIVE US A STRAIGHT ANSWER ABOUT THEIR POLICY ON INTERNSHIPS? *GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE* The biggest challenge we have encountered with our Pay Your Interns campaign is getting big brand’s press offices to respond to our questions about their...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 18, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
LABEL REFUSES TO COMMENT – AND LATER REMOVES OFFENDING ADVERT *GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE* The fashion brand Vivienne Westwood has advertised a full-time, three-month unpaid internship on their company website, refused to answer our questions about how they feel...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 5, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
…YET CLAIM THEY ARE “PASSIONATE” ABOUT PROTECTING YOUNG WORKERS FROM EXPLOITATION *GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE* Topshop has admitted to hiring interns — and paying them only £3.50 a day. These young workers are expected to work five days a week from...
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