McCann Fitzgerald, one of Ireland's leading firms, has deferred some of its new trainees' start dates by two years. Reportedly with no compensation at all.
Insiders at the firm claim that graduates who were due to start this summer were told that their contracts would be deferred until at least April 2010. However they weren't offered any cash, weren't given any certainty as to dates and were informed at the last minute, all of which conspired to prevent them applying for anything useful like masters degrees.
Last week they were contacted again and told not to turn up until September 2011. Again, no word of any cash offer. The unfortunate trainees-to-be will now have to spend two years rooting around for the handful of dangerous, hot, unpleasant or badly paid jobs that are still on offer in Ireland's buggered economy.
The firm admitted that it had "deferred the commencement dates for 2009 traineeships", but claimed that "just three graduates have been deferred until 2011". So that's OK then. It got all coy about how long the other graduates would be forced to clean the streets, flip burgers or give handjobs to meet the rent, and refused to comment on whether it would pay any compensation for "reasons of commercial sensitivity".
Commercial sensitivity? Yeah, right. McCann Fitzgerald holds itself out as the pre-eminent firm in Dublin, and doing over its trainees in a manner that would shame even Shoosmiths is nothing short of scandalous.
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Insiders at the firm claim that graduates who were due to start this summer were told that their contracts would be deferred until at least April 2010. However they weren't offered any cash, weren't given any certainty as to dates and were informed at the last minute, all of which conspired to prevent them applying for anything useful like masters degrees.
Last week they were contacted again and told not to turn up until September 2011. Again, no word of any cash offer. The unfortunate trainees-to-be will now have to spend two years rooting around for the handful of dangerous, hot, unpleasant or badly paid jobs that are still on offer in Ireland's buggered economy.
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A future McCann Fitzgerald trainee |
The firm admitted that it had "deferred the commencement dates for 2009 traineeships", but claimed that "just three graduates have been deferred until 2011". So that's OK then. It got all coy about how long the other graduates would be forced to clean the streets, flip burgers or give handjobs to meet the rent, and refused to comment on whether it would pay any compensation for "reasons of commercial sensitivity".
Commercial sensitivity? Yeah, right. McCann Fitzgerald holds itself out as the pre-eminent firm in Dublin, and doing over its trainees in a manner that would shame even Shoosmiths is nothing short of scandalous.