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Modern slavery as an intern

Being an intern is basically being a slave. Espacially if you are done with studying and are already writing your bachelors thesis. I am 30 and I am an intern. I have really bad conditions like a lot of unpaid traveltime. Around 3-4 hours daily. I am paid like I don't have an education at all. No actually I get paid less than minimum wage. Actually in my country in a 100% pensum you have to earn at least 2300 CHF a month (aroumd 2500$). I earn less than that. With my level of education I should earn around 6300-6800 CHF even tho I don't have my diploma. With a diploma it would be around 7500 CHF. What do I earn next semester? 4000 CHF! That's like 50% short. Also when we agreed on that contract it said I simply work there. Now we decided I am working there and…


Being an intern is basically being a slave. Espacially if you are done with studying and are already writing your bachelors thesis.
I am 30 and I am an intern. I have really bad conditions like a lot of unpaid traveltime. Around 3-4 hours daily. I am paid like I don't have an education at all. No actually I get paid less than minimum wage. Actually in my country in a 100% pensum you have to earn at least 2300 CHF a month (aroumd 2500$). I earn less than that. With my level of education I should earn around 6300-6800 CHF even tho I don't have my diploma. With a diploma it would be around 7500 CHF. What do I earn next semester? 4000 CHF! That's like 50% short. Also when we agreed on that contract it said I simply work there. Now we decided I am working there and doing a project as my thesis that the workplace profits from. They expected me to this for free. Also I have to work in the new interns (4 people) that was also not part of the contract.

I now asked them to rewrite that contract together with me. What the, don't know is that I will quit if they don't meet my requests. They are in dire need of my work because other coworkers already quit because of the bad conditions.

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