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latest news:
- Fashion Industry Cutting Ties with National Minimum Wage Law
- Complaining about no-pay works – companies ordered to pay 167 interns.
- Grayling defends new London work experience scheme – but are interns replacing paid employees?
- Milburn report – time to end the “voluntary approach” to interns
- Social mobility tsar calls for internships to “no longer be treated as part of the informal economy”
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Fashion Industry Cutting Ties with National Minimum Wage Law
Rights for Interns has just received a brand new report exposing NMW abuse in the fashion industry. This was written by three law finalists at the University of Warwick. Spokesperson Julie Mansuy told us that: “over the past six months we have undertaken a human rights project aimed at tackling the issue of unpaid internships […]
Grayling defends new London work experience scheme – but are interns replacing paid employees?
Chris Grayling defended the Government’s position on work experience in a speech at the right-leaning think tank Policy Exchange on Tuesday, announcing a new project in London making young people do free work for their benefits, and criticising the “Polly Toynbee left” (a rather dismissive way of referring to all of us plus most other […]
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Court battle could spell good news for unpaid interns
Entertainment union BECTU recently helped one of their members to a landmark court victory, which could have wide implications for companies seeking to avoid paying interns. Here’s part of a report from Tribune Magazine in December 2009: Nicola Vetta’s dispute with London Dreams Motion Pictures, a film company which specialises in “rom-coms”, began as a […]
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