‘This exploitation cannot continue’: EU urged to ban unpaid internships. Unions are now pushing for a law banning unpaid internships across the EU
by EUstrongerthanUS
‘This exploitation cannot continue’: EU urged to ban unpaid internships. Unions are now pushing for a law banning unpaid internships across the EU
by EUstrongerthanUS
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Internships were used to destroy entry level positions, I’m curious how this will effect the job market in future
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Should ban consultant companies, that hire you and then pimp you out to companies, to work around unions. You get less rights and stuff, and often not that much more pay either. Its very big in Sweden 😤
France is going to hate it. lol. Its government banks on this to hide their youth unemployment numbers.
Go Luxembourg. There internships are paid.
#But paying non eu citizens (like Ukrainians) less than minimum wage is still all good and dandy.
This will backfire, because the job market is now a place that you need basically “senior” position for everything.
Unless the government pays part of the entry level position, this will backfire
Unpaid work….the American dream.
And here I paid them to do my internship. Welcome to Bosnia.
Ban cheap labour and companies will start avoiding using it, lessening the job opportunities for the inexperienced. Internships and junior positions are rarely profitable for companies.
While I dislike the internships to be unpaid or junior positions to be factually unpaid, I am afraid banning it altogether would create a more serious issue
I think a lot of companies abuse it, at the same time it can be a good thing if done the right way. My education was 2 years with a third of the time being unpaid internship during which time I got government subsidies + a low interest rate student loan, So I could eat, pay my rent and work for free at that moment. The company where I did my internship hired me and for me it worked out great as the opportunity gave me a start in the industry and I got my first paycheck after 3 months of internship.
But I’ve seen companies take on interns and even if they really deliver work wise they are often just let go after. Often people without any form of income. The reasoning being that we take time to develop these young people and get some work done for free = “win / win, good luck in your future endeavors”. But everyone needs food on the table so I still don’t feel like it is a fair deal to take on an intern without there being a possibility of full-time employment. Junior employees earn less as it is.
Will this lead to more paying positions, or fewer internships?
Seems double-edged, since an unpaid internship can be given as a trial to a relatively unproven candidate, who otherwise might have struggled to get their foot in the door. Suppose we’ll see soon enough.