The Unpaid Internships With the rise in globalization and the increase in competition in this day and age, organizations are implementing creative ways to reduce their organizational cost in order to maximize overall profit to survive in this post-recession economy. The labour market, specifically in the context of Canada, witnesses thousands of students that graduate every year and look for suitable job opportunities to meet the ever increasing rise in the cost of living and to pay the essential student debts. With organizations striving to reduce their costs to increase their profits and with students desperate to transition into the corporate world, the concept of “free labour” comes into the picture. In Canada, there is an alarming increase …show more content…
Internships are meant to have a proper start and end date with proper objectives that meet with the student’s field of education. The website further states that unpaid internship can be justified as legitimate if the training provided during the internship program is solely for the benefit of the interns and the employer should have little or no benefit during the training process and employers should also ensure that no current employee of the organization should be displaced for hiring an intern (CACEE, …show more content…
Unpaid internship has an impact on the economy in a negative way as it increases the youth unemployment numbers, it also causes a downfall in the wages for the economy and at the same time it contributes to slow economic growth (Langille, 2013).
Langille (2013) further suggests that students or unpaid interns are made false promises of gaining the essential knowledge and experience from their time invested in the company for free and also the potential of having a full time employment at the organization, however it is not certain that they would be hired, hence the company is avoiding paying taxes to the government, which is another impact the overall economy is facing. Furthermore, it also impacts the economy in a way that the new graduates or the interns suffer from lack of security and alienation from the labour market (Langille,