Unpaid Work

Tony Blair's Office U-Turns Over Intern Pay

Huffington Post UK | Posted 01.11.2012 | UK Universities & Education

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 ...

Surviving Unpaid Internships

Cerian Jenkins | Posted 27.11.2012 | UK Universities & Education
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.

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
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.

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

David Lintott | Posted 06.08.2012 | UK Politics
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.

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

The Huffington Post UK | Dina Rickman | Posted 21.02.2012 | UK

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