"An ideal model would be one where we allow 13- to 15-year-olds to work, with sensible regulations in place around not working during school hours or at times that would impact a young person's education," he said.
Mr Zahra said Australia was at a crisis point when it came to labour shortages with more than 40,000 vacancies in the retail sector.
This business body says children as young as 13 could be used to help solve labour shortages in Australia - Article Link
Australia sinks further & further into decline…instead of improving wages and work conditions to make retail jobs enticing, were going to have kids working instead? What?
It’s funny that we’ve become so reliant on importing people to grow our economy that we are now having issues even maintaining it and have to resort to ideas like this haha. Looking forward to seeing children in corporate next.