Comment on Fair Work Commission scraps discount pay rates for young Australian workers
threeduck@aussie.zone 22 hours agoThe downside is that if you can hire a 26 year old for the same price as a 16 year old, why would a business hire a 16 year old? Where’s the incentive to let kids into the workforce?
moody@lemmings.world 22 hours ago
Lots of fast food restaurants and supermarkets hire teens in places where they have to be paid the same as everyone else. Being young doesn’t make one incompetent, just inexperienced. And there are lots of older inexperienced people as well.