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 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 | Sep 27, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Unpaid internships, Wages, workfare
PUNY PAY PACKETS MEAN WORKERS ARE NOT SPENDING, SAYS NEWSPAPER EDITOR Employers who pay their graduates low wages – or even no wages at all – are helping to keep the UK in recession, an expert has said. Writing in yesterday’s City AM, the...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 14, 2012 | Employers and recruitment, fashion, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Parents and family, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
IS ANYBODY EARNING ENOUGH TO PAY THEIR OWN RENT? As growing numbers of fashion-focussed graduates tell us they are working for years unpaid (yes, really), Graduate Fog wonders: is anybody earning a decent wage in this industry? Or is the truth that most people working...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Aug 30, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages, workfare
SHOCKING NEW TRIAL SCHEME WILL SEE GRADUATES MAKE JUST £1.87 AN HOUR Job-seeking graduates living in London are to be forced to work for three months unpaid in order to keep their benefits, the government has announced. That means they will be toiling for less than...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jul 4, 2012 | Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages
NEW SURVEY SHOCKS VAST MAJORITY OF LOW-EARNING GRADUATES A new survey has shown that the average graduate salary is now £29,000 – leading Graduate Fog to ask where on earth the researchers found these high-rolling young people they polled. Most of the graduates...
by Tanya de Grunwald | May 28, 2012 | Employers and recruitment, fashion, Graduate Fog, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages
ARCADIA MAKES SECRET PAY-OUTS TO FORMER EMPLOYEES, ADMITTING “REMUNERATION WAS APPROPRIATE” *GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE!* Arcadia – the parent company of Topshop, Miss Selfridge and Dorothy Perkins – has made numerous payments to former interns...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Mar 28, 2012 | Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Unpaid internships, Wages
BUCKINGHAM PALACE GRADUATE HR ROLE OFFERS JUST £12,500 PER YEAR, WELL BELOW THE LONDON LIVING WAGE An advert has been posted for a full-time, six-month graduate HR internship at Buckingham Palace, paying just £6.41 an hour, despite it requiring candidates to have...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Mar 6, 2012 | Business, Careers advice, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Retail, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages
A THIRD OF GRADUATES ARE DOING LOW-SKILLED JOBS, NEW RESEARCH REVEALS The number of recent graduates employed in low-skilled jobs — including retail assistants, cleaners, hotel porters and machine operatives — has hit a ten-year high, according to new...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Feb 15, 2012 | Charities and volunteering, Employers and recruitment, Graduate unemployment, Pay Your Interns, Politicians, Unpaid internships, Wages
THIRD SECTOR’S TREATMENT OF INTERNS IS FAR FROM CHARITABLE, SHE SAYS *GRADUATE FOG EXCLUSIVE* The legal loophole which currently allows charities to use unpaid interns must be closed, says the Labour MP Hazel Blears, who promised to push for a change in the law...
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