Sentence examples for fair internship from inspiring English sources
Vi Tran and Kate Richards at the Fair Internship Initiative Geneva.
On 10 November, IID said protests for fair internship payment took place across the world, with demonstrations staged in Switzerland, Belgium, France, India, Australia, and Italy.
The Fair Internship Initiative (FII) – which started as the Pay Your Interns movement in Geneva in early 2015 – is a network of interns across five countries.
The Fair Internship Initiative has already questioned many of the new candidates about their position on paid internships and while most sound supportive, only a handful have made meaningful commitments to change.
The event - which was organised by a group called Fair Internship Initiative (FII) - also saw the demonstrators line up shoes outside the building which, the FII said, was to expose 'the shoes of the invisible young people who cannot afford to work for free at the UN'.
The event was organized by a group calling itself the Fair Internship Initiative, or FII, one of the main intern-run organizations that has advocated for UN agencies to offer paid internships, something the vast majority do not.
Gus Baker is the co-director of Intern Aware, the national campaign for fair internships.
We work with employers, such as Adecco and Microsoft, to develop a toolkit for organisations to make sure that they are providing good quality, fair internships, based on our charter.
Ben Lyons, co-director of Intern Aware, a campaigning group for fair internships, said that, while work experience was an increasingly important addition to a graduate's CV, if work was being carried out then a proper wage should be paid.
Until the advert was picked up by the Graduate Fog website, which campaigns for fair internships and better treatment of graduates by employers, nobody thought there would be an issue.
Tanya de Grunwald, who campaigns for fair internships and is the founder of the careers website Graduate Fog, which first highlighted myInternSwap's apparent pitfalls, said the website might seem harmless, but it was important to see the bigger picture.
