Lisa Emmanuel

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Today, unpaid internships are a common part of a student's education. While they're seen as a way to get your foot in the door of your chosen profession, they're also problematic. Many students are exploited in the workplace as unpaid interns who are pushed to work long hours and tasked with completing jobs that paid employees do. Playing on the foot-in-the-door idiom, I wanted to address this issue by conveying that unpaid internships are not always what they seem.
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Work Right!


We all have the right to work without discrimination or exploitation of our gender, age, nationality or physical condition. 

We all have the right to work for a wage that is fair reward for our labour and that will enable us to support ourselves and our families.

The right to work protects us from child labour, gender and age discrimination and exploitation in all its forms. It entitles us all to the same opportunities, benefits and protection from exploitation or malpractice.

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The Unpaid Internship Trap

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