“Pay arts interns minimum wage, demands Labour MP”

31 Jan
From yesterday’s London Evening Standard…

Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt was today challenged over the “worrying” use of unpaid interns in some of London’s leading museums and galleries.

The Imperial War Museum, Natural History Museum and National Portrait Gallery were among major arts bodies found still to be using unpaid interns despite a government drive, led by Nick Clegg, to end the practice.

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High time mainstream media and MPs making the link between unpaid labour and class discrimination in the cultural sector!!