Unpaid Internships

Unpaid internships: Working without pay for months and sometimes years after graduating triumphantly wasn't exactly what Smith and his friends had in mind when they toiled away along the path to what they believed was a bright future. Unpaid internships exploit vulnerable generation , according to CBC. "I used to do marketing and there are a couple of marketing companies that are absolutely notorious they have marketing graduates working 50-hour weeks and overtime without pay, and if you refuse to work the OT you don't get a reference," he said. Nicholas Smith is a 22-year-old Torontonian, working on his second unpaid internship after graduating from the University of Toronto last year with an ethics degree. "I am working with people who've done their masters degrees, and definitely there's an emotional toll in having to work for free," said Smith, whose current unpaid internship is at a Toronto-based think-tank as a foreign policy analyst. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.