>>An intern can only be unpaid if they are not doing productive work and you have a trainer with them. I mean yes, but like you yourself acknowledged - that's

>>An intern can only be unpaid if they are not doing productive work and you have a trainer with them. I mean yes, but like you yourself acknowledged - that's a completely meaningless law. No intern is going to report this, because young people are just happy to have a job, no one wants to destroy their career right at the start. I myself was in that exact same position when I started - as an intern, my contract specifically said I can't be doing any productive work. Of course I did anyway. And I'm sure it still happens in every industry, because.....why wouldn't it. That's why I think unpaid internships just shouldn't be a thing at all, anywhere, unless linked to vocational schools that oversee them as a training programme.