Course Summary
This course is an elective for students who wish to participate in Work Integrated Learning Internship with an organisation.
Under this elective, you are expected to work a minimum of 480 hours in total. This is equivalent to 40 hours per week for a 12 weeks period.
If a student is on an official internship and all the required paperwork is in place to link the internship activity via an approved industry partner to RMIT academic studies, then legally, no payment has to be made to the student. However, the Australian Fair Work Commission guidelines although not specifying a length of time do advise along the lines of... when 'training' starts to replicate 'work' then the student should be remunerated.
RMIT (CoBLs) understanding of the the Fair Work Commission guidelines, the maximum any student may work without pay is 240 hours. Therefore, placements on this course will either be 50% or 100% paid at the minimum level or above.