Posted Nov 6, 2014, 6:20 PM
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Who does this guy think he is?! People need to pay their bills. So let's go work for free. Then go work at a real job to pay the bills?
Personally, I would never fucking ever work for free. Sheer stupidity. I've volunteered before. But that's for non-profit's, community centre, things like that. Work for some corporation, for free?!? Sorry. I can never understand those fashion magazine type places you see in the movies. Sure it's the movies. But going to work for free, some asshole boss demeaning you. Are you kidding me?
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/bus...urce=d-tiles-1
Top banker tells jobless youth to work for free
By: Aidan Geary
Posted: 11/6/2014 1:00 AM | Comments: 40 | Last Modified: 6:38 AM
SOME Winnipeg teens aren't impressed with recommendations from Canada's top banker that jobless university graduates beef up their resumés by working for free.
Speaking to a House of Commons committee Tuesday, Stephen Poloz, governor of the Bank of Canada, suggested young Canadians and others struggling to find work should acquire more experience through unpaid internships or volunteering until the country's hobbled job market picks up. He predicted it would improve during the next two years.
Poloz told the committee that when a young person asks for advice on getting through the tough times, he says, "Volunteer to do something which is at least somewhere related to your expertise so that it's clear that you are gaining some learning experience during that period."
The central banker made the remarks a day after he told a business audience that 200,000 young Canadians are out of work, underemployed or back in school trying to improve their job prospects. He is under fire for his comments.
Advocates for young workers in Canada aren't buying it, and neither are Winnipeg teens, who were at the Free Press as part of Take Our Kids to Work Day, a national program that gives high school students exposure to the workplace.
"I don't think I would want to do that, personally," said Josh Samyn, 14. "Because you know, you've got to make loans to get you through college and then you're not even working for money. You want to start a life and get a job, get a house and stuff." Samyn goes to Charleswood Junior High in Winnipeg and said he is considering studying the sciences once he starts university.
Some of his fellow Grade 9 students agreed.
"I think all labourers should be paid," said Anh Tuan Nguyen, 15, also from Charleswood Junior High. He said he wants to study animation or graphic design.
Statistics Canada's latest job numbers said the unemployment rate for people aged 15 to 24 was 13.5 per cent in September, almost double the country's overall jobless rate of 6.8 per cent for the same month.
If unpaid internships are the only way to gain experience, Jon Sneesby, 14, also a student at Charleswood, said he would "consider it," but thinks interns should at least get paid minimum wage.
"Work is work, so you're going to get the experience pay or no pay," he said.
The controversial issue of unpaid internships has been under scrutiny since Andrew Ferguson, a student in Alberta who was interning at a radio station, died in 2011 while driving home after a 16-hour day.
Earlier this year, the Ontario government cracked down on the practice at several Toronto magazines, prompting the publications to stop offering unpaid internships. Last summer, an NDP MP tabled a private member's bill aimed at protecting those who agree to work for free.
A report released in June by the same parliamentary committee recommended Ottawa work with provinces and territories to ensure unpaid interns are protected under labour laws.
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