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Interns: To pay or not to pay them

Tuskys Supermarket Chief Executive Officer Dan Githua(in red tie) together with the Chairman John Kago, congratulate the successful interns during The Tuskeys Internship Programme launch. [Photo by Pius Cheruiyot/Standard]

On Friday, December 29, 2017, Twitter hashtag #InternsNotBeastsOfBurden was trending for the better part of the day. It was prompted by news that some companies were either paying interns very little or not at all.

Interns are usually students on industrial attachment or graduates who have not yet found a job and end up accepting placement offers.

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