PRIA issues agency guidelines on use of interns
Industry body the Public Relations Institute of Australia has announced new rules around internships in an attempt to better clarify how agencies should utilise students who are placed with them.
The new internship guidelines are designed to ensure agencies, who often have university students placed with them, understand the requirements around reporting, insurance and management.
“A survey of consultancies also highlighted confusion about the employment status of interns, the need for confidentiality agreements, reporting and the application of policies such as occupational health and safety,” said Annabelle Warren, national chairman of the PRIA Registered Consultancies Group.
“The guidelines also clarify obligations within the Fair Work Act, and when a student intern is exempted from the act.”
Good, it’s absolutely overdue. The advertising industry will hopefully follow suit, the treatment of interns in our industry is unacceptable. If someone works for you, pay them.
Anon, this technically would make that an employee and I don’t make a habit of hiring employees who don’t have any skills who I have to train for the luxury of them checking out my joint….More legislative bullshit. I interned and survived… I remember scrubbing the walls with gumption to get my foot in the door. These kids need to get real.