Job Discrimination Against Teenagers (Part 2)

I do apologise, I have had to work backwards with this article and divide it into 5 smaller separate posts because the Blogger software I'm using seems to have had a Tumblr moment (an inability to cope with a large blog post!) I love Tumblr though really I do!

Youth unemployment statistics show that between June - August this year that there were over  957,000 young people age between 16 - 24 that were out of work. An employer insisting on experience does absolutely nothing to help rectify the employment woes of this ever increasingly vulnerable generation.

Now I know that employers have a right to employ who they wish but unfortunately the must have previous experience prerequisite I would have thought from a laypersons perspective is surely a breach of human rights.

One other point that has sprung to mind is how hard can reception work be? most school leavers are a dab hand when it comes to computing and all things technological, most young people are bright and bubbly, they can answer a phone call with friendliness, ease and good cheer, how difficult can filing, photocopying, scanning and typing on a keyboard, logging information and general aspects of office work be? The answer is, this type of work is relatively easy, therefore this advertisement and countless others like it, is downright YOUTH AGE GROUP DISCRIMINATION and the government should be ashamed of itself for allowing this to go unchecked.

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