UCL to pay all interns at London Living Wage rate

All UCL interns are to be paid at the rate of the London Living Wage (LLW) with effect from today (1 December), under UCL's updated Internships, Work Experience and Volunteering Policy. The current LLW rate is £9.15 an hour, which means that interns at UCL working a full week will receive a wage of £333. Under the new policy all UCL interns will in addition receive paid leave accrued on all the hours they have worked, and also be entitled to statutory sick pay. The policy sets out explicitly the difference between internships, work experience, and volunteering. Internships are described as being for the education and/or career development of the intern. Interns must be offered meaningful work that will benefit them and the department, and internships must not be used to cover substantive work. The number of interns at UCL is not recorder centrally, but it is estimated that at any one time UCL has approximately 30 working on campus.
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