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@just_me_karen wrote:
Wonder? Meant to be wider.

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I doubt that it was Work Cover that ordered it.  Were they even around then?  

So how do you think that students and work experience kids will benefit when there is no minimum wage?  Will it get them a job?  How about we go back to when work experience was for nothing.  Some child minding centres still did that at least a few years ago. 

Work for nothing in the hope of getting a job.  Job offers... zilch.

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@diamond-halo wrote:

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@i-need-a-martini wrote:

Lower the minimum wage?

 

Thank god for unions.

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as it stands now, a lot of people are prevented from gaining valuable work exoperience and opportunities to increase their skills base and make them more employable.

 

I think we need a minimum wage, but broader scope needs to be applied for those wishing to avail themselves to the above.

 

 

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How? Who?

And what does a minimum wage have to do with this?

If anyone really wants to know what is like to work in a system which has no legally enforceable right to a minimum wage then just go and look at what happens in those countries which haven’t (a minim wage) and ask yourself would I work, or allow my children to work under those conditions for that pay.

As for lost training opportunities, by and large they don’t exist   What does exist is using ‘work experience’ as lure to get people to work for nothing with no real prospect of a job at the end of it, and with the few, if any, skills acquired being of little value because they are exactly the same skills which any person of  average intelligence could acquire with a few minutes of on the job training.