by Tanya de Grunwald | Jan 8, 2013 | Unpaid internships, Wages
“COMPLIANT, SILENT AND MOSTLY FEMALE” – FEMINIST BLOGGER NOTES SIMILARITIES A blogger for a feminist website has suggested that interns are the new housewives, highlighting the parallels between “the precarious nature of their careers”...
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...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 23, 2012 | Careers advice, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Health and welfare, job hunting, Unpaid internships, Wages
FESTIVE SALES JUMP FOR ‘HOW TO GET A GRADUATE JOB IN A RECESSION’ – HAVE YOU GOT YOUR COPY YET? Sales of How to Get a Graduate Job in a Recession – the book by this website’s founder Tanya de Grunwald – have jumped just before...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 21, 2012 | graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Health and welfare, Housing, Unpaid internships, Wages
NINE IN TEN CAN’T AFFORD PRESENTS OR TRAVEL TO CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS Christmas is looking bleak for unemployed young people, according to new figures, for which over 400 NEETS (16-24s not in employment, education or training – including graduates) were...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 19, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
DEPUTY PM FEARS “UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES” INCLUDING “BLACK MARKET” FOR BEST OPPORTUNITIES *GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE* *COMMENTS NOW OPEN! (OOPS – SORRY THEY WERE CLOSED BEFORE!)* Nick Clegg’s office has told Graduate Fog that the he...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 18, 2012 | Employers and recruitment, fashion, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
BUT WAS IT REALLY AN “ISOLATED INCIDENT” AS THEY CLAIM? Harrods has become the latest big brand to award back-pay to a former intern as part of our Justice for Interns campaign. The £1,800 payment means Graduate Fog and Intern Aware have now won more than...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 17, 2012 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Unpaid internships, Wages
COMPANY DIRECTOR SWAMPED WITH HATE MAIL The publishing company that ran what’s been called The worst job posting ever? for an unpaid internship has been shocked by the outcry it triggered – but claims it was “a modest proposal” and that...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 13, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Unpaid internships, Wages
GRADUATE FOG CHALLENGES THE PUBLISHER WHO DEMANDS EVERYTHING – AND PAYS NOTHING Want to work days, nights and weekends – for no wage at all? Prepared to abandon family commitments and holidays to work for free? This – and more – is what one...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 11, 2012 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, job hunting, Unpaid internships, Wages
IT’S TIME FOR SOLIDARITY, SAYS STUDENT If young people really want to see an end to unpaid internships, they must all refuse to work for free whatever their economic background, it has been suggested. Libby Page, a serial intern now in her final year studying...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Dec 5, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
SMALL CHANGE TO LAW WILL HAVE A BIG IMPACT, SAYS LABOUR MP HAZEL BLEARS Advertising unpaid internships could become illegal from next year, under proposals being introduced into parliament today. Although unpaid internships themselves are already illegal, advertising...
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