Almost one in 5 UK business admits using internships as a source of cheap labour.
17% of employers said they had taken on interns in order to get work done more cheaply in a survey carried out by YouGov on behalf of Internocracy, a social enterprise working for better internships. And 95% of the 218 businesses questioned said that interns were very useful to their organisations.
These statistics show clearly how businesses are benefiting from the work done by interns eager to gain that vital work experience. But anyone doing real work deserves to be paid in real money, not just in ‘learning opportunities’. Read more…
posted 06/05/2011
An internship should be a chance to learn valuable work skills, not an unpaid opportunity to learn to commute and skivvy for paid staff. The TUC’s new campaign, Rights for Interns aims to tackle exploitation on internships.
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posted 29/03/2010
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