With youth unemployment on the increase again this week, many young people desperate for a job see unpaid internships as their best chance of getting experience of work.
But research published by the TUC today (Saturday) suggests that almost four in five (78 per cent) 18-34 year olds could not afford to live in London away from home to become an unpaid intern.
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GMB will take all necessary measures, including balloting members for industrial action, to prevent these ill-advised plans from being implemented
GMB is about to launch a High Court action involving over one hundred GMB members and would encourage anyone unrepresented to join or support us AGM in London tomorrow will be told
Staff at Barnet and Southgate College are furious the college is refusing to honour a nationallyagreed pay rise of just 0.7% when it has been revealed that six senior managers, including the former Barnet College principal, walked away with a combined redundancy pay off of £409,000.
It is unfair and not acceptable that Sodexo UK chief executive is paid more than fifty times the salary of a full-time catering worker on this Sodexo contract in Fife says GMB
The political stagnation is such that while the OBR said that public spending cuts would deflate GDP by 2.7% no one seriously expects a U turn in today’s budget
The case to retain more than 300 jobs at the Moy Park poultry plant at Wisbech, Cambridgeshire will be made strongly by Unite
The case to retain more than 300 jobs at the Moy Park poultry plant at Wisbech, Cambridgeshire will be made strongly by Unite
We have skills, technology, expertise, are cost effective and competitive so all it needs is Government to support the industry for a thriving future says GMB