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Vague law creating trouble for architecture firms and interns - Sourceable
Vague laws relating to internships as well as misunderstanding of legal requirements are creating significant difficulties for architecture firms and interns alike, the head of a leading advocacy body...
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The intern experience - Desktop
Recent design school graduate Colin Fung immersed himself in as many internship and volunteer experiences as he could during his studies, and upon graduation. Here he shares the things he picked up...
View ArticleBusinesses offering dodgy unpaid internships to graduates - The New Daily
Young people are willing to do unpaid work to gain an edge over their fellow graduates.
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Businesses capitalising on oversupply of graduates by offering students dodgy...
The growing practice of unpaid work for graduates is fostering concerns about a culture of dodgy student work placements in Australia.
View ArticleUnpaid interns concerned about dodgy work placements - ABC PM
Interns Australia speaks to the ABC's Mark Colvin about the internship phenomenon.
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Commission warns against using unpaid interns instead of paid employees -...
Businesses using unpaid interns could face regulator scrutiny and customer backlash, the Productivity Commission warns.Unpaid internship remained a controversial issue. Business groups feared...
View ArticleIs Work Experience Worth it at Any Price? - BBC
A UN intern slept in a tent on the shores of Lake Geneva to raise awareness about how hard life can be for interns.
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Sharon Warburton: turn your Glass Slippers into Steel Heels
“I didn’t go off and do a Masters in Construction Management, yet I understand more than enough about how construction and mining works to be able to have leadership roles in those industries.”...
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Interns foot the bill for unpaid work - The Age
Jobseekers and students are too scared of endangering their careers to speak out about unfair unpaid positions.
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Interns Australia 2015 Annual Survey
86.40 per cent of interns receive no pay or below minimum wage despite only 40.35 per cent of internships being completed as part of education or training. These are just some of findings of the...
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The unfair system ripping off young Australians - The New Daily
Why is the best way to get a job forcing young workers to forfeit in excess of $6000?
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Exploited interns forfeit an average of $6000 in wages - The Age
Young Australians slogging through unpaid internships are sacrificing $6000 in wages and working an average of nine weeks without pay.
View ArticleEmployer Misrepresents Interns' Pay and Conditions
Earlier this month the Federal Circuit Court fined a director of a company for underpaying her interns, and for misrepresenting the nature of the interns' employment.The irony in this case: that same...
View ArticleThe Boomer Supremacy - The Monthly
The Monthly's article "The Boomer Supremacy" looks into how the dynamics of Australian lifestyle has changed across generations - including the growing prevalence of unpaid internships, stating "In...
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Unions launch Young Workers Centre 'to empower' youth against exploitation -...
A February article in the Guardian has covered the launch of the Young Workers Centre - a new unit created by the Victorian Trades Hall Council with the purpose to “[empower] young people to defend...
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IA Interviews ACCI's Jenny Lambert
IA's co-founder Colleen Chen recently interviewed Jenny Lambert (Director, Employment Education and Training) from the Australian Chamber of Commerce & Industry (ACCI) on the topic of "job ready"...
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Do We Need to Rethink Internships, to Ensure Millennials Get Off to a Good...
Catalogue Magazine recently published an article on the need to rethink internships, particularly those that are unpaid. The article highlights that 60% of interns surveyed (in our 2015 annual survey)...
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National Youth Week 2016 – Young People and Unpaid Work
With youth unemployment more than double the rate of the general population, more and more young people are engaging in unpaid work in the hope of making the transition into paid employment. Raising...
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IA supports the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance to develop internship...
Journalism, media, fashion, entertainment and the arts are industries where unpaid internships are rife. In recognition of the need for clear guidelines on internships for job seekers and students in...
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Our Policy Director Clara on The Feed discussing the problems with the...
Our Policy Director Clara was interviewed on The Feed SBS about the problems with the Government's Youth Jobs PaTH program.
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