Ban the use of unpaid internships

Closed 429 signatures

What the petition asks

Many internships require students to work obscene hours completely unpaid, creating an unfair class bias system, and exploiting students in a work environment. Companies should be required to pay their interns, more than just expenses being covered at a bare minimum.

In the fashion industry, many internships are completely unpaid or with only a small amount of expenses covered. With students working normal hours (9-5) or even longer during certain periods it is unlikely students can manage a paid job alongside. Not only does this create an unfair class bias system within the industry and can force and encourage the exploitation of students within a working environment.

Timeline

4 Sep 2020	Petition opened for signatures
4 Mar 2021	Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 429

Status Closed

Opened 4 Sep 2020

Closed 4 Mar 2021

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