LINK: The government's website continues to offer unpaid internships despite warning to break the law. Thousand of them are entitled to be compensated.
Over half of 29,000 places listed on the government's Graduate Talent Poll website advertise jobs payed less the minimum wages.
According to the Guardian analysis based on 624 adverts on the site in mid-October, the situation has got worse since a Freedom of Information request revealed the problem last year.
The Graduate Talent Pool is a government website set up in 2009 by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) to take graduates on the career ladder.
Many agencies use the website to recruit young people offering unpaid or expenses-only internship. Most of them last several months, more than traditional work experience placements.
The case has been taken to the court for breaching the employment law with exploitation of interns.
Joseph Thomas, policy officer for Interns Anonymous, denunces the situation. "These documents show cowardice and a lack of determination to do anything. I think it is indicative of a deeper problem in society in that as long as my kids, people like us, are all right, we don't need to do anything about it".
However the Department for Business declares the Graduate Talent Pool service has been update recently to guarantee the quality of vacancies by checking they can give real opportunity to improve the social mobility. Any concerns about money are addressed to the employer.
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