Andy Pearce, CEO of creative start-up thortful.com, is becoming increasingly concerned that making it a legal requirement to pay interns after four weeks’ unpaid work might be detrimental to small businesses, and also the individuals taking advantage of the many internships offered by smaller enterprises. On October 27th a private member’s bill, introduced by the
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Call for companies that don’t pay interns to be exposed
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Mullins, the founder of Pimlico Plumbers, has expressed his views ahead of Conservative MP Alec Shelbrooke introducing a private members bill in Parliament this Friday (November 4th), calling for a ban on unpaid internships. The entrepreneur, who claims to always pays interns working in his London-based business, also believes that not paying interns puts those young people from
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