Submitted on Friday 4th November 2011
Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Financial Remuneration for Internships. An end to Unpaid Internships.
Article 23, Section 3, of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that "Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection."
The National Minimum Wage Act of 1998 is universally applicable to ordinary workers.
Interns are given set hours and set responsibilities, for a long period of time. This is what is legally constituted as work.
Interns are workers and are legally entitled to some form of remuneration, and this should be, at the very least, the National Minimum Wage.
The government must abolish unpaid Internships. Any working contract lasting longer than two weeks that does not guarantee a full or part time paid job at the end of it, were someone is given set hours, and set tasks and responsibilities, must invoke the National Minimum Wage.
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