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Author: Rebecca Raby, Professor of Research on Children and Youth at Brock University
As a researcher on children and adolescents, I 'm I'm interested in the relationship between teenagers and work. After a two-year blockade that prevented many teens from working, the current labor shortage provides them with many exciting work opportunities this summer. This may be especially welcome news for those who have a hard time finding a job, such as young and racist teens.
Miriam, an eighth grader, the daughter of one of her colleagues, shared her excitement about her employment with me. She is keen to harness her babysitter experience in her new job as a junior counselor at a summer day camp:
"I'm not only excited but nervous I've never worked (in a formal job), but I know I'm lucky to get it. It's not only cool and funny, but also hard and tiring I think it will be. I think I really like it and I think I like making money myself and meeting new friends. "
Early part-time jobs were money It offers many opportunities for teens to earn money, build skills and career networks, foster friendships, foster self-confidence and independence. And teens themselves are generally positive about their early part-time jobs.
Young workers are vulnerable
There are also issues that arise in early work, and health and safety are important. Young workers are particularly vulnerable because they tend to work for short periods of time, often lack training and safety education, and can consider injuries merely as "part of the job."
Young workers also have an unequal relationship of power with their employers, both as employees and because of their young age. They are not confident to speak and employers are less likely to hear them when expressing concerns. Link text
Parents often feel positive about their children working and downplay potential risks. Threads of Life, a Canadian charity that supports families after death at work, plans to have two-thirds of Canadian businesses hire more young workers in 2022 than in the last two years. I found that, but only half have safety programs in place.
Labor law is a state law and varies throughout Canada. In most places, children between the ages of 14 and 16 can work, but there are restrictions on the types of work they can do, the hours they can work, and the hours they can work (especially during school hours). Permits are usually required for young teens aged 12 or 13. To do more dangerous jobs such as logging and mining, teens must be 17 or 18 years old. When children work in the family business, the rules tend to be looser.
Especially in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, children between the ages of 13 and 15 are required to complete a youth worker preparation certificate course before working. Quebec is currently reassessing its children's work law in the face of an increasing number of accidents among teens under the age of 16. The government has recently tightened rules on early work.
Teenage work experience
My research team is in Ontario and 9th grade BC and also in Ontario. We conducted more than 200 surveys of our students and held 14 focus groups for some of these students. We asked for their experience, their thoughts on their early work, and how they deal with work-related challenges.
The Government of Canada rarely collects data on working children under the age of 15, but has learned that many teens are working. They play babysitters, deliver paperwork, play baseball games, sell products, and do many other jobs. Even a small part works for a very long time. Others want to work, but don't know how to find a job.
We asked our students how to handle dangerous working conditions. Some said they would ask a colleague for guidance. Given that many teens have little work experience over the past few years, this trend suggests that teens are talking to other inexperienced peers.
Many of the participants hesitated to say no to unsafe work and did not know that they had the right to refuse unsafe work. Most people have not yet taken a secondary course in Ontario's 10th grade working on workplace rights and safety.
Parents need to protect teens
It's exciting that young workers have the opportunity to start early employment this summer. , Many people may not be fully prepared. Parents play an important role in helping working children, from taking them to work to counseling when work breaks into school.
Parents need to ask and advise on the safety and impartiality of their child's new workplace. Employers need to listen to the concerns of young workers and ensure that new employees receive sufficient repetitive safety information. Young people themselves should pay attention to safety precautions and bravely speak out if the situation feels dangerous or unfair.
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Rebecca Raby is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Brock University Social Sciences Research Council, and the Brock University Institute of Social Justice. Faculty of Social Sciences, Western University.
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