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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”
Tag Archives: BECTU
Shooting Yourself in the Foot?
I had a really interesting and enjoyable evening at the BECTU’s ‘Shooting Yourself in the Foot’ event at the University of London Union last week. There wasn’t a spare seat in the house as Martin Spence and Bennetta Adamson of BECTU took on Jess Search and Chris Jones from the jobs site Shooting People to […]
Posted in Events, Film industry, Interns' pay
Also tagged event, interns, minimum wage, Shooting People, Shooting yourself in the foot
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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 […]
Posted in Case studies, Interns in the media, Interns' pay, Unions and interns
Also tagged interns, National Minimum Wage Act, union, unpaid, work experience
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