An interior design business has come under fire for offering six unpaid “voluntary internships” totalling nearly 5,500 hours of work and equating to more than £34,000 in wages.
The Edinburgh-based Casa Morada has been reported for investigation to HMRC after the six month-long placements were spotted by eagle-eyed student journalists at The Student.
The company posted an advertisement on job searching website Gumtree in late August, offering six unpaid “voluntary work experience internships” on a 35-hour week for half a year.
Although the company has since taken the adverts down on Gumtree, HuffPost UK was able to locate the original post.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/09/10/unpaid-internship-35-hour-working-week_n_5796032.html
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