by Tanya de Grunwald | Sep 14, 2017 | Business, Employers and recruitment, leisure and hospitality, Money, Politicians, Retail, Wages
“YOUNG WORKERS DESERVE TO BE TREATED FAIRLY” AND PAID THE SAME AS OLDER COLLEAGUES The Government must stop cheating 21- to 24-year-olds out of the top rate of National Minimum Wage (NMW), the Low Pay Commission has been told today. The TUC (Trades Union...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Feb 17, 2017 | diversity, Employment rights, Graduate Fog, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Money, social mobility, Uncategorized, Universities, Unpaid internships, Wages
WHY MORE WAGE CHEATS COULD FACE PROSECUTION IN FUTURE There have been calls for firms that employ unpaid interns to be prosecuted, not just fined or told to reimburse workers’ missing pay. Speaking shortly after 350 firms – including Debenhams, Subway and...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Nov 18, 2016 | Employers and recruitment, London, Money
NEARLY 4 MILLION SQUEEZED WORKERS TRAVEL OVER 2 HOURS PER DAY – ARE SKY HIGH RENTS TO BLAME? How long is your daily commute? Or, if you’re job hunting, how long would you be prepared to spend travelling to and from work every day? The number of employees...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Jun 28, 2016 | Business, Employers and recruitment, Employment rights, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Politicians, Recession and economy, Wages
IS SHOCK EU REFERENDUM RESULT GOOD OR BAD NEWS FOR YOUNG WORKERS? In case you missed it (!), the British public has just voted to leave the European Union (EU). On Friday it was announced that 52% of those who voted wished to leave (‘Brexit’), while only...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 15, 2016 | diversity, Employers and recruitment, Graduate unemployment
SHOCK REPORT SHOWS BLACK, ASIAN AND MINORITY ETHNIC GRADUATES 2.5x MORE LIKELY TO BE JOBLESS Black, Asian and minority ethnic graduates are two and a half times more likely to be jobless than their white friends, shocking new research reveals. Is the ugly truth...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Apr 1, 2016 | average graduate salary, Business, Employers and recruitment, Employment rights, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Money, Recession and economy, Wages
YOU CAN VOTE AND JOIN THE ARMY – BUT YOU DON’T DESERVE ‘GROWN UP’ WAGES UNTIL YOUR 25TH BIRTHDAY. WHAT’S THAT ABOUT? Around 1.3 million workers will enjoy a historic pay boost from today, as the government’s new National Living Wage...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Mar 10, 2016 | Employers and recruitment, Employment rights, Graduate Jobs, leisure and hospitality, Money, Recession and economy, Retail, Wages, zero hours contracts
UNDER-25s ACCOUNT FOR TWO THIRDS OF LATEST RISE A new boom in the number of people depending on a zero-hours contract for their main job has hit young workers hardest, according to new research. This includes many graduates doing “stop-gap” jobs –...
by Tanya de Grunwald | Mar 18, 2015 | average graduate salary, Benefits and welfare, Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Housing, London, Money, Politicians, Recession and economy, Wages, zero hours contracts
NEW RATE IS “NOWHERE NEAR ENOUGH” SAY CRITICS Good news for graduates doing low-paid internships, shop jobs and bar work: the national minimum wage is set to rise in October 2015. The bad news? The new rate is just 20p per hour more than the current rate....
by Tanya de Grunwald | May 19, 2014 | average graduate salary, Benefits and welfare, Business, Employers and recruitment, graduate debt, Graduate Jobs, Graduate unemployment, Health and welfare, Housing, job hunting, Politicians, Recession and economy, Retail, Unpaid internships, Wages, zero hours contracts
ROCK-BOTTOM PAY FOR 5 MILLION WORKERS “CAN’T CARRY ON”, INSISTS ED MILIBAND Labour leader Ed Miliband has outlined plans to increase the UK’s national minimum wage to a level closer to the country’s average income, if his party wins the...
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