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"Why interns' need a fair wage"
Report by ippr and Internocracy
Added 2 August 2010
A new report from ippr and campaign group Internocracy on why interns need a fair wage spells out how employers almost certainly break the law with interns. Unpaid internships, it points out, are common in politics, media and the fashion industry and enable young people to get a head start in their career. It is entitled “Why interns need a fair wage” and the press release covering it is at: http://www.ippr.org.uk/pressreleases/?id=4081.
The full report can be accessed via ippr at: http://www.ippr.org/publicationsandreports/publication.asp?id=765.
Internocracy’s website is at: http://www.internocracy.org/.
More coverage of the report - all worth reading for their different angles:
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BBC website covers the story at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-10822784,
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The Daily Telegraph has it covered here http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/jobs/7920381/Employers-warned-that-unpaid-internships-could-break-law.html, and
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The Guardian reports at http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2009/jul/31/mps-graduate-interns-pay.
