by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 15, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Housing, Unpaid internships, Wages
£6.19 AN HOUR DOESN’T GO FAR IN 2012, GRADUATES TELL US It’s been dubbed the ‘poverty wage’ because it is so grim to live on – yet new figures show that millions of people in the UK are only earning the national minimum wage. At present,...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 12, 2012 | Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Media and journalism, Unpaid internships, Wages
PUBLISHER OF HEAT AND GRAZIA PROMISES ALL INTERNSHIPS ADVERTISED ON NEW CAREERS SITE WILL PAY AT LEAST THE MINIMUM WAGE A brand new careers website run by magazine publisher Bauer and mobile phone network O2 has promised that all internships advertised on the site...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 1, 2012 | Business, Charities and volunteering, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
PRESSURE FROM GRADUATE FOG LEADS FORMER PM TO CHANGE HIS POLICY ON PAYING YOUNG STAFF From today Tony Blair will pay all interns working in his profit-making businesses where they are doing placements of three months or more, his office has announced. The statement...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 31, 2012 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Media and journalism, Politicians, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages
GRADUATE FOG’S EVIDENCE PASSED TO OFFICIALS Tony Blair’s office could face an investigation by HM Revenue and Customs, after evidence from Graduate Fog was passed on to the officials responsible for enforcing the national minimum wage. When quizzed by the...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 25, 2012 | Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
IRONY ALERT AS “MR MINIMUM WAGE” OFFERS EXPENSES-ONLY INTERNSHIP AT HIS PRIVATE OFFICE **GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE** A graduate from a top London university has told Graduate Fog that he was offered and then rejected for a three-month internship at Tony...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 25, 2012 | Employers and recruitment, fashion, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Media and journalism, Uncategorized, Unpaid internships, Wages
ISN’T IT FUNNY HOW INTERNS ARE SO POWERLESS? ER, NO, NOT REALLY… **GUEST POST** Politics graduate Kayla, 24, has done an unpaid internship with Amnesty International and a paid internship with Lloyds Banking Group. She gives her verdict on The Work...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 23, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Universities, Unpaid internships
AND UNIS MUST STOP PROMOTING UNPAID INTERNSHIPS, WARNS NEW REPORT Snobbish employers who only recruit graduates from elite universities – ignoring candidates from less prestigious institutions with identical grades – have been slammed in a new report...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 19, 2012 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Media and journalism, Unpaid internships, Wages
INTERN PACKED CLOTHES IN THE STOCKROOM AND TRAINED HER OWN REPLACEMENT An intern who worked at NOW magazine has been awarded £750 of back pay after signing up for our Justice for Interns campaign. IPC Media, the magazine’s publisher, admitted she had carried out...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 18, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Unpaid internships, Wages
MAGAZINE PUBLISHER, AUCTION HOUSE AND TECH GIANT PAY OUT — BUT WE CAN’T TELL YOU WHO THEY ARE **GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE** Three big companies have written cheques totalling nearly £3,000 to a group of interns who challenged them for failing to pay the...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 10, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Unpaid internships, Wages
A REWARD FOR GRAFTERS – OR A PENALTY FOR THE POOR? Graduates who intern for three months after university add an average of £1,500 to their starting salary when they eventually begin their first paid job, new research shows. As most internships are now unpaid...
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