Not as fucked up as it sounds. Federally, the minimum working age is 16 and parents are legally required to keep their kids in school until they’re 16. Most Aussies believe you need to be 14 and 9 months to get a job (beyond the family business), as that was an older minimum schooling requirement (decades ago).
Combined with the high quality of living, low poverty rate, high immigration (suppressing wages), and high minimum wage, this functionally meant that there was never any reason for the states to mandate a minimum working age — businesses didn’t seek to employ them.
Obviously now that capitalism has corrupted most governments and abandoned the social contract, we need to rethink all norms of modern society.
As someone who grew up in NSW it’s 14 and 9 months. Exceptions might exist for family businesses etc. but your 8-year-old can’t apply for a job at Woolies.
Wow did not realise that three of our states don’t have a minimum working age - NSW, Tasmania and South Australia.
What? Source?
Edit: So there isn’t.
https://www.safework.sa.gov.au/workers/wages-and-conditions
that is so fucked up
Not as fucked up as it sounds. Federally, the minimum working age is 16 and parents are legally required to keep their kids in school until they’re 16. Most Aussies believe you need to be 14 and 9 months to get a job (beyond the family business), as that was an older minimum schooling requirement (decades ago).
Combined with the high quality of living, low poverty rate, high immigration (suppressing wages), and high minimum wage, this functionally meant that there was never any reason for the states to mandate a minimum working age — businesses didn’t seek to employ them.
Obviously now that capitalism has corrupted most governments and abandoned the social contract, we need to rethink all norms of modern society.
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Wait is this an Australian news story? I just assumed it was about somewhere here in the US
Oh we’ve been doing this shit too don’t worry
Is it similar to Texas but with kangaroos?
Or is Texas similar to Australia but with guns?
Same. On second glance, though, the site in the tweet is a .net.au.
Not a guarantee, but certainly ups the odds.
If it weren’t for the comment, I would haven’t just not noticed. I assumed the same. That’s fucked.
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As someone who grew up in NSW it’s 14 and 9 months. Exceptions might exist for family businesses etc. but your 8-year-old can’t apply for a job at Woolies.
Apparently it used to be that, but now there is no limit: https://www.industrialrelations.nsw.gov.au/new-to-work/essential-information-for-people-new-to-work/new-to-work-faq/#:~:text=How old must I be,may apply relating to age.
Wait is this an Australian news story? I just assumed it was about somewhere here in the US