Tony Blair’s office exploited interns
Office of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair could be probed over violation of the national minimum wage regulations by exploiting people as unpaid interns. The Office of Tony Blair has admitted to the use of interns for three months and replacing them with new interns to avoid regular payments. Blair’s office had to confess [...]
I Want to be a Journalist, But I Can’t Afford to Work for Free
“I want to be a journalist, but I can’t afford to work for free.” A simple sentence, but it has taken me four years to find the words and confidence to write it. I am a final year journalism student at the London College of Fashion, and in my fourth year of unpaid internships. I [...]
The truth about unpaid internships
Unpaid internships are not the sort of experience we offer, here at Give A Grad A Go. However, many websites and organisations play on the crisis and recession in order to gain graduates as part of their workforce. When do you draw the line between ‘work experience’ and actually taking on someone’s workload? What are [...]
The benefits of internship programmes for companies, graduates and students
Internship culture, once a process typically associated with eager North American students wanting to get a foot on the career ladder, has made its way to the UK and seems to be the go-to buzzword with grads and companies alike, over the past two years. Whereas some argue that unpaid internships are unfair, unlawful and [...]
Some of the UK’s biggest companies join a campaign to promote fairer work experience opportunities
Young graduates tell Channel 4 News that they are ‘treated as slave labour’ as an online fight back begins against unpaid internships Websites which are set up by graduates are springing up to offer unpaid interns to talk about their feeling that internships are more of nothing more than exploitation. Channel 4 News Culture Editor [...]
Nick Clegg Champions Campaign To End Unpaid Internships
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has thrown his weight behind a campaign being launched this week by PRWeek and the PRCA to end the practice of unpaid internships. To launch the campaign, the PRCA will today take the step of placing a list on its website of all PRCA member agencies who commit to paying [...]
Half of all student internships still unpaid, survey shows
‘Erosive culture’ persists despite a government-backed code of best practice on paying university students to do work experience internships Nearly half of all internships undertaken by university students are unpaid, according to latest figures. A survey by university careers agency Graduate Prospects asked 22,000 UK graduates between 2006 and 2010 if they did any work [...]
Third of government web internships are unpaid
A Freedom of Information request shows that almost one in three internships on government website Graduate Talent Pool are unpaid. The website was set up by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) to match graduates with internship opportunities, acting as an online filter for prospective candidates after valuable work experience once their uni [...]