by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 12, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Media and journalism, Pay Your Interns, Unpaid internships, Wages
BYLINES, CONTACTS, FREE TICKETS AND MEALS WERE FAIR REWARD FOR INTERNS’ WORK, HE CLAIMS A company founder has angered graduates by insisting that young people would shoot themselves in the foot if unpaid internships were banned. He also suggested that interns...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 11, 2011 | Charities and volunteering, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
THEIR SCIENCE ADVISERS PAY THEIR INTERNS JUST £100 A WEEK EXPENSES **GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE!** A recruiter in charge of hiring unpaid interns at the Royal Society — the UK science academy which advises the United Nations and the European Commission — has...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 8, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Unpaid internships, Wages
NEXT PHASE OF OUR ‘PAY YOUR INTERNS’ CAMPAIGN TARGETS HIGH-PROFILE BRITISH BUSINESS OWNERS Do Dragons’ Den judges Duncan Bannatyne, Peter Jones, Deborah Meaden, Theo Paphitis and Hilary Devey have interns working within their companies – and if...
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...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Oct 4, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Unpaid internships, Wages
…YET TELLS US IT “DOES NOT HAVE AN INTERNS SCHEME” Tesco told Graduate Fog that it “does not have an intern scheme” — 10 days before the supermarket was forced to remove adverts for 145 unpaid “customer assistance”...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 30, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Media and journalism, Pay Your Interns, Unpaid internships, Wages
THEY MADE COFFEE, CLEANED OFFICES AND TOOK OUT THE BINS Two interns who worked on the Oscar-winning film Black Swan are suing studio Fox Searchlight. They claim their employer used them to complete menial work that did little to educate them in the business of...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 29, 2011 | Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Housing, Politicians, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages
YOUNG, UNEMPLOYED SINGLES WILL BE LEAST LIKELY TO GET COUNCIL HOMES Unemployed graduates could find themselves at the back of the queue for council housing, if a new scheme being trialled in London is rolled out nationwide. The central London borough of Westminster...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 29, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Pay Your Interns, Unpaid internships, Wages
…BUT ARE THEY TELLING THE TRUTH? British Airways has insisted that the company “does not employ interns” — yet we have found evidence that this might not be true. When approached as part of our Pay Your Interns campaign, a BA spokesperson told...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 28, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Unpaid internships, Wages
YOUR MUM’S FAVOURITE DEPARTMENT STORE PROVES IT VALUES ITS YOUNG WORKERS Shock news reaches Graduate Fog – some employers pay their interns MORE then they need to by law! John Lewis has told our Pay Your Interns campaign that the company pays their interns...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 27, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Pay Your Interns, Unpaid internships, Wages
BOLD PLEDGE BY MASSIVE PUBLISHER SURPRISES GRADUATE FOG Penguin has become the latest company to promise to our Pay Your Interns campaign that it pays all its interns above the National Minimum Wage. The publishing house joins advertising agency BBH, which has also...
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