The article I've found interesting today is "Unpaid internships 'breaking minimum wage law", from the magazine section of the BBCNews.
It's hard enough for people to get hired in such a competitive world; the chance is even smaller for new graduators who have no experience. They would do what ever it takes to get their resume look good, even if it means that they have to work for free. This is how the controversial issue starts, "the law says anyone who is "working" must be paid the national minimum wage" ("Unpaid internships 'breaking minimum wage law", 2010, Graduate exploitation?) but apparently trainees from the, 6 months long, internship program are working for no payment. The article says that the program is against the law.
Since I am looking forward to my graduation and starting my career, I did some research on some job finding websites and assumed that it's very hard for new graduators to find an appropriate job. Every job available requires for working experience and what can a new graduator do to gain experience; they will finally give their consents to work for nothing, maybe as a trainee. This article confirms my belief. I also heard before that during the bad economic, lots of companies make workers work for free and the workers have to do just that because they don’t want their resumes to have a big hole where they do nothing. It’s bad for the work record, I think. However, is it the violation of the law? Or, it is that they are helping the not-hired employees out.
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References
Howard, D., Unpaid internships 'breaking minimum wage law (2010,March 7). BBCNews, retrived on Mach7, 2010 from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8551598.stm
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