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Stop the exploitative practice of unpaid internships for students.

Submitted by Maria Dorofeeva on Monday 6th February 2023

Published on Wednesday 8th February 2023

Current status: Closed

Closed: Tuesday 8th August 2023

Signatures: 176

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Brands ~ Change ~ Companies ~ hiring ~ Labour ~ Mandatory ~ Minimum ~ Minimum wage ~ Replace ~ US ~ work

Petition Action

Stop the exploitative practice of unpaid internships for students.

Petition Details

Make it mandatory for all employers in the UK to pay a minimum wage to their student interns.

Additional Information

Brands are exploiting the fact that we are students to use us for free labour.

The companies we work for often would not be able to produce the work they do without us or without hiring employees to replace us.

A lot of us have to resort to working, sometimes 30+ hours, in addition to working as interns just to be able to survive.

Companies should be required to pay a salary for any work that is done for them and the fact that we are student interns should not change that fact.


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