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 10, 2012 | graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Health and welfare, job hunting, Parents and family, Wages
DEBT AND POOR JOB PROSPECTS SEE NUMBER TAKING THEIR OWN LIVES INCREASE BY MORE THAN A THIRD *Thinking dark thoughts? We promise you’re not alone — and there is help available. Please contact PAPYRUS or the Samaritans now. Suicide is always a tragic waste...
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...
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...
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