The pressure is on for employers to pay people on work experience if they contribute to the work of the organisation, following a Government social mobility report, and recommendations from the 2010 Low Pay Commission report.
In the light of this, it is interesting to discover that four in ten (44%) employers don't pay any of their student or graduate internships a wage, according to the findings of the XpertHR work experience and internship survey (subscription required). A similar proportion (38%) don't pay their expenses, and 27% pay neither wages nor expenses.
The Institute for Public Policy Research report "Why interns need a fair wage" suggested that the legislation surrounding the payment of interns is a grey area for employers, and the survey does nothing to negate this view. It found little consistency between employers in their approaches to the payment of interns, and within some organisations one intern could be paid and another not, for no clearly defined reason.
I discuss more of the findings from the XpertHR survey on work experience and internships on XpertHR's Pay Intelligence blog.
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