Surely this isn’t legal: interns at Monocle Magazine are paid around HALF the national minimum wage -- despite the magazine being valued at almost $50 million last year.

Each year the company employs about 30 interns in conditions where overworking or working for free is the norm. Unfortunately, this is the story right across industries.

Things don’t have to be this way: in February the government launched an initiative to crackdown on unpaid internships, and charity Cancer Research UK recently announced it’s banning unpaid internships, offering national minimum wage to all its interns.

After recent negative press went viral, Monocle is feeling the heat. Let’s pressure the company to do the right thing and pay its workers a national living wage, and turn this latest fight for young workers’ rights into a national movement!

Tell Monocle Magazine to stop exploiting young workers and pay its interns the national minimum wage!

Former Monocle intern Amalia Illgner’s article in the Guardian has reignited the debate around intern pay in Britain, and highlighted how important it is for visible companies like Monocle to take responsibility in the fight for fair pay!

Cancer Research CEO Harpal Kumar said: “[Intern pay] is a complex issue but we felt it was the right time to tackle it. It is not right that those who can’t afford to intern unpaid should be excluded from gaining essential experience.”

If Cancer Research can do it, why not Monocle? Workers deserve fair pay for fair work, regardless of title or position.

Monocle Magazine: the tide is turning -- stop exploiting young workers and pay its interns the national minimum wage!

SumOfUs members have a long history of standing with workers, from Uber drivers to Walmart employees, and tens of thousands of members like you opposed the government’s plan to force companies to publish lists of ‘foreign workers’. We won each one of those fights -- and we can win against Monocle Magazine, if we stand up again to support its interns’ fight for a fair wage, and help set a precedent across British industry.

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