{"id":407,"date":"2012-01-31T19:43:39","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T19:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/?p=407"},"modified":"2021-10-18T08:26:12","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T08:26:12","slug":"link-boris-johnson-advertises-for-unpaid-intern-and-some-legal-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/2012\/01\/link-boris-johnson-advertises-for-unpaid-intern-and-some-legal-context\/","title":{"rendered":"Link: Boris Johnson advertises for unpaid intern (and some legal context)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"float: right;\" ><a class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-via=\"\" data-count=\"none\" data-related=\"mohanjith:S H Mohanjith\" data-lang=\"en\" data-url=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/2012\/01\/link-boris-johnson-advertises-for-unpaid-intern-and-some-legal-context\/\" data-text=\"Link: Boris Johnson advertises for unpaid intern (and some legal context)\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=&#038;count=none&#038;related=mohanjith%3AS%20H%20Mohanjith&#038;lang=en&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fhelpmeinvestigate.com%2Feducation%2F2012%2F01%2Flink-boris-johnson-advertises-for-unpaid-intern-and-some-legal-context%2F&#038;text=Link%3A%20Boris%20Johnson%20advertises%20for%20unpaid%20intern%20%28and%20some%20legal%20context%29\" >Tweet<\/a><\/span>Graduate Fog do some straightforward digging to <a href=\"http:\/\/graduatefog.co.uk\/2012\/1857\/boris-johnson-recruits-unpaid-interns\/\">reveal<\/a> that London Mayor Boris Johnson, who &#8220;attacked young jobseekers for lacking the \u201cappetite\u201d to find work&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Is busy recruiting for his own unpaid intern to help with his Back Boris 2012 campaign for re-election in May. His full-time \u201ccampaign assistant\u201d will receive travel and lunch expenses only.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The ad was found<a href=\"http:\/\/www.w4mpjobs.org\/JobDetails.aspx?jobid=33060\">\u00a0on political jobs website w4mp<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; but Graduate Fog add some further legal and historical context:<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If these interns are found to fit the criteria that make them a \u2018worker\u2019 as defined by the national minimum wage law, it is unclear whether Johnson feels he would be protected by the IPSA ruling which attempts to create a loophole allowing MPs to have unpaid interns.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If he is hoping for protection under this rule, it should be noted that as Mayor of London Johnson is not an MP. Nor is Back Boris 2012 a registered charity, so it seems unlikely he could claim that he is exempt from having to pay this campaign assistant for that reason either. We approached Johnson\u2019s office for a comment but have had no response.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nicely done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TweetGraduate Fog do some straightforward digging to reveal that London Mayor Boris Johnson, who &#8220;attacked young jobseekers for lacking the \u201cappetite\u201d to find work&#8221;: &#8220;Is busy recruiting for his own unpaid intern to help with his Back Boris 2012 campaign &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/2012\/01\/link-boris-johnson-advertises-for-unpaid-intern-and-some-legal-context\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[197,198,196,199,200,201],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1311,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions\/1311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}