Think this is long overdue. If you want to train people up, the least you can do is pay them.
Brilliant. I used to work in design and it’s such a barrier to entry for lower income people to expect experience from internships that you aren’t getting paid for. Makes it so certain industries are only accessible to those with the wealth to work unpaid.
This is just a call for evidence. As the article points out:
“Unpaid internships are already largely banned under current law when they are not part of an educational or training course. The government is committed to strengthening these protections by gathering more evidence on how unpaid internships affect young people and how businesses use them to assess candidates.”
What forms these protections will take is unclear at this stage.
That doesn’t mean they’ll start offering paid internships lol
All work should be subject to minimum wage regardless if you are an intern or on an apprenticeship or whatever.
Unpaid work is worse than slavery, this still being questioned is another sign of the actual living crisis.
They won’t be replaced by anything, there will just be fewer internships
Slavery with extra steps and a fancy name.
How was this ever legal? Don’t we have minimum wage laws?
Wtf I thought that minimum wage meant exactly that! I thought it was illegal to get someones time without the minimum compensation threshold under the slavery laws
But if companies then stop these internships then isn’t it lose lose
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Think this is long overdue. If you want to train people up, the least you can do is pay them.
Brilliant. I used to work in design and it’s such a barrier to entry for lower income people to expect experience from internships that you aren’t getting paid for. Makes it so certain industries are only accessible to those with the wealth to work unpaid.
This is just a call for evidence. As the article points out:
“Unpaid internships are already largely banned under current law when they are not part of an educational or training course. The government is committed to strengthening these protections by gathering more evidence on how unpaid internships affect young people and how businesses use them to assess candidates.”
What forms these protections will take is unclear at this stage.
That doesn’t mean they’ll start offering paid internships lol
All work should be subject to minimum wage regardless if you are an intern or on an apprenticeship or whatever.
Unpaid work is worse than slavery, this still being questioned is another sign of the actual living crisis.
They won’t be replaced by anything, there will just be fewer internships
Slavery with extra steps and a fancy name.
How was this ever legal? Don’t we have minimum wage laws?
Wtf I thought that minimum wage meant exactly that! I thought it was illegal to get someones time without the minimum compensation threshold under the slavery laws
But if companies then stop these internships then isn’t it lose lose
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