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Tony Blair's Office U-Turns Over Intern Pay

Huffington Post UK | Posted 01.11.2012 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: Unpaid Interns, Workers, UK News, Tony Blair, UK Students, Hmrc, Hm Revenue and Customes, Tony Blair Interns, Unpaid Work, UK Universities & Education News

Tony Blair's private office has said it will pay interns the minimum wage after the former prime minister was reported to HM Revenue and Customs over ...

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Surviving Unpaid Internships

Cerian Jenkins | Posted 27.11.2012 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: Budgeting, Unpaid Interns, Studying, Intern, Internships, Student Life, Interning, Money, Student, London, Unpaid Work, Unpaid Internships, Working in London, UK Universities & Education News
Cerian Jenkins

It's a tough time to be an intern at the moment. Though the number and range of internships in the UK have increased considerably in the last few years, a staggering one in three interns are working for nothing. Zilch. Nada.

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Pay Your Interns or Face the Music: Why Intern Aware is reporting HMV to the Advertising Standards Authority

Gus Baker | Posted 01.10.2012 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: Graduate Unemployment, Internships, Young People, Unpaid Internships, Hmv Interns, False Advertising, Unpaid Work, Young People Internships, UK Universities & Education News
Gus Baker

Today Intern Aware, the campaign for fair internships, reported HMV UK LTD to the Advertising Standards Authority in response to their advert for an intern to work for three months with no pay at all.

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The Unpaid Jubilee Stewards Scandal Exposes Britain's Continuing Social Inequality

David Lintott | Posted 06.08.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Unemployment, David Cameron, Jobseekers, Diamond Jubilee, London Bridge, Unpaid Work, Queen Elizabeth II, Work Programme, Cpuk, UK Politics News
David Lintott

It was a busy weekend in London, what with the diamond jubilee going on. Thousands of royalists turned out to celebrate the Queen's big weekend of pomp, pageantry and patriotism despite the downfall.

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Tesco Backtrack On Work Scheme... But Protests To Go Ahead

The Huffington Post UK | Dina Rickman | Posted 21.02.2012 | UK
Read More: UK News, Tescos, Iain Duncan Smith, Unpaid Work, Right to Work, Department of Work and Pensions, UK News

Tesco has called on the government to stop forcing youths to undertake work experience in exchange for receiving benefits, after the supermarket came ...

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