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...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 26, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Wages
HOW OLDER WORKERS WHO REFUSE TO RETIRE ARE STOPPING THE YOUNG FROM GETTING STARTED Changes to the default retirement age will block even more young people from entering the labour market, a new survey suggests. Bosses say that new Government rules, which come into...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 22, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Unpaid internships, Wages
BIZARRE RESPONSE FROM HIGH STREET FASHION CHAIN The high street fashion retailer River Island has refused to answer our questions about whether they have any interns working within their company. In a bizarre thread of emails from their HR department, the chain has...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 14, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Pay Your Interns, Unpaid internships, Wages
BUT ARE THEIR COMPETITORS AS WELL-BEHAVED? The British advertising agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH) has become the first Pay Your Interns target to tell Graduate Fog that the company pays its interns the National Minimum Wage (£5.93 an hour, rising to £6.08 from 1...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 10, 2011 | Employers and recruitment, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
GRADUATE FOG LAUNCHES NEW NAME-AND-SHAME CAMPAIGN TODAY Are you sick of doing unpaid internships that never lead to a job – just another unpaid internship? Are you tired of waiting for politicians to clamp down on the companies which exploit their young workers...
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