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Interns: To pay or not to pay

What started as a tweet on whether or not interns should be paid has seen graduates share their worst experiences with exploitative employers who abused them for free services, equipped them with irrelevant skills, and denied them an opportunity to grow. Employers, on the other hand, argue that this is their way of shouldering the burden of interns they describe as ill-equipped and ‘untrainable’.

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