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 27, 2011 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Wages
“SKILLS SHORTAGE” IS A MYTH – EMPLOYERS SHOULD PAY MORE, TRAIN MORE AND EXPECT LESS A management expert has blasted recruiters for demanding too much of young candidates – and suggested that companies invest more in training and developing...
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 24, 2011 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Unpaid internships, Wages
ALAN SUGAR PROMISES HE DOES NOT USE UNPAID INTERNS *GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE!* Lord Sugar has become the first high-profile business person to back our Pay Your Interns campaign by stating publicly that he does NOT use unpaid interns within any of his companies. His...
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 17, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Politicians, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages
MEET THE ‘STOCKHOLM SYNDROME’ INTERNS: HAPPY TO WORK FULL-TIME FOR FREE Seven former interns from the recruitment company Reed have told Graduate Fog they were definitely NOT exploited during their months working there full-time, earning around £90 a week....
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...
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