By Candice Zhang Many students were in the process of securing an internship placement in the past winter and summer semesters, but after the pandemic hit, some faced the inevitable. Companies that provided students with internship opportunities informed the college that they were closing their internship opportunities. As a result, some students were left in…
“Because students are there to learn and not work for free.” Dario Guescini, Director of Work Integrated Learning at George Brown College.
With a banner reading ‘pay us, or we break everything’ students smash wooden doors in street outside of Université du Québec à Montréal
Government asked to increase per diem by $10 over four years for apprenticeship students
The Quebec-wide coalition against unpaid internships has set March 18 as the date for their general unlimited strike
Pay Your Interns summit puts internships in the spotlight
Only 22 of 961 interns ended up being hired by the federal government
‘Over the last decade employers are reaching for the unpaid internship first as a way of getting recent graduates and not having to pay anything to train them’
The Ministry of Labour’s website lays out the guidelines for what constitutes a legal internship in very clear terms, but how often do students and graduates actually encounter internship options that meet all of these criteria, outside of their school placement programs? Even the most cursory job search will turn up innumerable internships whose descriptions…
What needs to happen to stop the practice of unpaid internships?
