Sentences with phrase «offering unpaid work»

Most employers offering unpaid work experience will cover your expenses.

Not exact matches

Companies that offer unpaid internships are often criticized for excluding students who can not afford to work for free.

But while AOL could cut off Baker's salary, Mozilla was an independent entity, and Baker, who had become a popular and respected figure in the open - source world, remained as an unpaid volunteer for about a year, until a nonprofit called the Open Source Applications Foundation offered to restore a portion of her former salary to support her Mozilla work.

Make sure internships are accessible to everyone (this includes offering paid positions for those who can not afford to do unpaid work).

- I too will be quitting work, but I'm taking the maximum amount of maternity leave offered (It's all unpaid, of course) before I sign papers and quit.

If your company doesn't offer paid maternity leave, and you can't afford to take unpaid leave try to work out a flexible schedule where you might be able to work from home several days per week for the first six weeks after your baby's birth, or possibly ask to work part time for a period of time.

«For example, athletics departments may be able to work with employers to offer flexible paid or unpaid professional internships around student - athletes» seasons.

Our internship program is unpaid; although, we offer students with the opportunity to get hands - on experience on what it's like to work in the real world of specialty retail.

The Dole amendment, offered in an attempt to head off a threatened Presidential veto, would require some recipients to participate in unpaid community work projects.

Richard Branson is renowned for offering his employees more flexibility, including the ability to dress down, work from home and take unpaid leave if they wish.

Conservatives: Increase parental leave to 18 months, allowing parents to take up to six months of additional unpaid leave; allow self - employed parents to earn money without impacting EI payments; offer choice between full parental leave EI payments for 35 weeks, or extend those payments, at a lesser rate, for up to a maximum of 61 weeks; women receiving EI maternity benefits will also be able to earn employment income under the Working While on Claim pilot project (this is currently permitted for those receiving EI parental benefits).

My approach was to simply write a letter, attach a sample of my work, and offer to come with capital to live on for 1 - 2 years if it was unpaid.

The Arts Commission offers unpaid volunteer opportunities for individuals who are interested in gaining work experience in the arts.

Social mobility in particular is such an important issue as young people trying to qualify face enormous hurdles including student debt, unpaid or low income work experience placements, and fewer legal aid firms offering training contracts.»

Respondents commented that they struggled to afford unpaid work placements for a number of reasons including having adult or child dependants; a lack of contacts (family or friends) in London where many legal aid practices are based and where unpaid work placements are offered; and the small number of part - time work opportunities to top - up a legal aid income.

And yet, this kind of unpaid «papering of the file» can work to eat up the lawyer's available time, and may ultimately frustrate the very purpose of the limited retainer — to offer affordable legal help.

Ms. Hunt explains how injured workers who are out of work and meet the FMLA requirements might be able to use unpaid FMLA to protect their job for a period of 12 weeks while they are out collecting workers compensation pay (since workers» compensation in Virginia DOES NOT offer any type of job protection to folks injured at work).

The functional resume thus offers advantage to the jobseeker with little or no work experience in that it allows the jobseeker to list skills gotten from school as well as those gotten from internship, hobbies — either paid or unpaid — which can be transferred to the workplace.

Do you offer competencies, personal attributes or unpaid experience that compensate for your lack of work history?

Some graduate schemes offer paid work from a beginner level and allow space for you to develop and grow within the company while some hold short - term contracts, some which can be a great experience but unpaid.

It would offer much greater financial independence and freedom of choice for individuals between work and leisure, education and caring while recognizing the huge value of unpaid and voluntary work.