{"podcast":{"title":"Checkpoint","slug":"checkpoint-650800","podcast_index_feed_id":650800,"rss_url":"https://www.rnz.co.nz/acast/checkpoint.rss","website_url":"https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint","image_url":"https://media.rnztools.nz/rnz/image/upload/s--1DCfozPw--/c_fill,f_jpg,h_2000,q_50,w_2000/v1769638651/4JU1RF0_checkpoint_external_cover_v2_png.jpg?_a=BACCd2AD","author":"RNZ","episode_count":1000,"summary":"Checkpoint with Lisa Owen is RNZ’s weekday drive-time news programme, Our people, stories and breaking news and interviews from 4-6pm.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-12T08:17:27.890421+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/checkpoint-650800"},"episode":{"title":"Unpaid placements leaving professions decades behind","slug":"unpaid-placements-leaving-professions-decades-behind","published_at":"2026-06-11T04:40:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/checkpoint-650800/unpaid-placements-leaving-professions-decades-behind","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/checkpoint-650800","url":"https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2019038880/unpaid-placements-leaving-professions-decades-behind","audio_url":"https://flex.acast.com/podcast.radionz.co.nz/ckpt/ckpt-20260611-1640-unpaid_placements_leaving_professions_decades_behind-128.mp3","summary":"\"It's psychologically demoralising to be working for nothing\". That from advocates who say having to do hundreds of hours of unpaid on the job training is leaving some professions decades behind the earnings of minimum wage workers. Nurses, teachers, medical students, midwives and social workers must do supervised placements to finish off their degree. But that can mean clocking up the kilometres and finding extra money for gas. Bella Craig reports.","meta_description":"\"It's psychologically demoralising to be working for nothing\". That from advocates who say having to do hundreds of hours of unpaid on the job training is…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":270,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/checkpoint-650800/episodes/unpaid-placements-leaving-professions-decades-behind/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/checkpoint-650800/unpaid-placements-leaving-professions-decades-behind.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}