... so?
I was working at Pizza Hut when I was 14, kids in the UK have paper-rounds, does it really matter if a 17-year-old is doing this?
The account-lending scheme is weird though.
I was working at Pizza Hut when I was 14, kids in the UK have paper-rounds, does it really matter if a 17-year-old is doing this?
The account-lending scheme is weird though.
However, I was interested by whether this would be legal or not.
https://www.gov.uk/child-employment/restrictions-on-child-em...
So there appears to be limits on when someone who is under 18 works, and what type of work. Additionally, it appears permits are needed for the employer, and the employee.
I picked Kirklees at random for more specific council laws: https://www.kirklees.gov.uk/beta/employment-information/pdf/...
It appears that things not being done in this scheme:
Sign off by the parent Sign off properly by the employer (in this case, the person renting the account) A risk assessment
However, it appears "leaving school age" is 16, even though adulthood is 18? So I'm not sure any of it would apply to a 17 year old.
On the other hand, minors are often underpaid, minimum wage laws (at least in my country) are different for underage people, which in essence is age discrimination if they do the same job.
Have they not been to any restaurants lately?
The major problem is the same issue with things like prostitution or drugs. If you ban it, you lose oversight and make it less safe.
I'd rather them allow kids to work, but put proper controls in place.
[1] https://www.gov.uk/child-employment/restrictions-on-child-em...
They just need to be in education, doing an apprenticeship or training part time.
And what's the minimum age for a kid working on his family's farm?
It's no secret that young people are at high risk for accidents in real-world jobs, and need serious training and tight supervision.
My Reaction: This story is about delivery-app workers because that is one of the few real-world jobs which is still visible from inside the well-gentrified little world-bubbles of the BBC's readers.
I'm not convinced by this sweeping statement (which would have more impact on non-uk readers). Grauniad readers, perhaps.
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However, there are incentives in place to not regard it as such: we don't want to pay extra; businesses don't want to pay a grown-ass adult with responsibilities; and adults don't want to make children's live's easier if they had it rough when they were growing up.
Disregarding other's rights of existence and rights of having a labor-free infancy will always come to bite us in the end: it's "fine" until you're replaced by an easily-exploitable teenager that can be underpaid because they're not aware of their labor rights.
Paper rounds? In 2023?