Australian Retailers Association Is Calling for Changes to The National Minimum Working Age to Be Lowered to 13

"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?

Comments

  • +3

    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.

  • +1

    By the quality of new homes I thought it was being built and inspected by a foetus army anyway.

    • I wouldn’t be surprised. The companies are stacked with managers on big salaries and not enough builders no doubt; housings been a house of cards and it’s finally cracking

  • Can’t see much of a difference, I was made to start work at 13, after doing paper runs for years.

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