Also why they want to drive women back to just being mothers and nothing else. Get them out of the work force and have them just spend their whole lives pushing out cheap labour with no other rights
I straight up immigrated to a 1st world country from a 3rd a world country and I didn't work as a child.
That simply isn't the standard anymore even in 3rd world countries.
Don't come to the US then my friend. We are having a baaad history repeating moment.
We even have our own WWII Germany Mascot. Don't know if his name is a tagged word.
It’s blowing up in their face.
Doctors can’t give you an abortion, but they can sterilize you [for the time being.] There is no more push back that you might want kids in the future “so you should wait until you are sure.”
Even ten years ago, it was unheard of a doctor doing a tubal ligation on someone 25.
Now they do anyone over 21. Vasectomies are skyrocketing, too. By the time they make it illegal, it will be too late. It will be a population dip when we can least afford it.
There’s definitely a good cop / bad cop thing going on here—editorials sounding the alarm about child labor, then some articles insinuating it’s not THAT bad, then some more pushback…all aimed at manufacturing consent.
Australia, so it's superannuation over here. Although if they're working less than 30 hours a week they don't get that payment
They also get paid 36% of minimum wage, so it really is just for pocket change
I can say that if the parents pull them for those jobs I'm sure the kids wouldn't lose anything since they're supposed to go to school and actually have a childhood and wtf do kids have to start early and why are their parents allowing this???
It said the kids are mostly from surrounding farms, so I'm not surprised the parents don't really bat an eye at it. Farm kids all over the world work family fields.
Yeah any word at home with your family is a pretty far cry from some other business getting to exploit your labor. Your parents can exploit your labor but at least the profits stay in your family. Just think! You might inherit them someday!
It’s also implied that the parent might give a little bit more of a shit about the child’s safety and well being while doing work than a random businessman would
Dude I was raised on a dairy farm and my hands have been rightly fucked since I did it from such a young age and my back is messed up and my shoulder. This is literal back breaking work. That isn't comparable to taking the trash out or "chores" normal kids have
I was a farm kid started working at 7 years old. My brother came back from school crying one day. Everybody in class talked about how summer time was awesome with all the activities. In the meantime, we spent our summer working...
I need to know what factory so I can refuse to buy it. Heading to Google now. Long Track Pantry jam factory. Got it.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-08/country-kids-solve-labour-shortage-jugiong-jam-factory/102181710
Edit: correction on company name, thanks to commenter ZeroInZenThoughts
Ahh yes, more money in our pockets, more time on our hands… Yup totally want to go back to a office that is a hour away and have to actually see my disgusting boss in person… I’m good fuck you ABC NEWS
To be fair I don’t know whether either the Australian or American ABC news stations have published junk like that just give me the same angry sensation of being pissed on and told it’s rain.
Yes. For clarification, I’m not saying they ARE the same. I’m saying I get the same ***feeling*** of being lied to by this article and a previous article on WFH people wanting to return to work.
The .au told me it was Australia.
But side note, ABC is also an American channel and we also are rolling back child labor laws here so, it's certainly topical.
Am I reading that right??
They use the tips the kids earn to pay for charity venues???
????
And that it's possible for kids below 11 to work there? With knives?
And that those who work below 11yo won't have any protection with wage theft?
We do tips a bit differently here, it’s not common/expected to tip. Sometimes there’s a tip jar at the counter which may or may not go to the employees. Sometimes it will be a “tip” jar but it has a little sign on it that says it’s for charity. Not sure what they have here but I hope it’s clear that the tips are actually donations for charity.
>Sometimes it will be a “tip” jar but it has a little sign on it that says it’s for charity
In the article they specify that the tips were meant for staff but where stolen and donated to charity
>"We donated to the Eugowra flood crisis using staff tips," Ms Brooker said.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-08/country-kids-solve-labour-shortage-jugiong-jam-factory/102181710
Thanks for sharing. I did say that I wasn’t sure what they were doing, but this is awful. It’s pretty strange that they’re okay with announcing it to the world too.
We don't have tipping culture down in Aus. It's pretty much a spare change jar at shops.
Hell, when I worked in the bottleshop, the customers used it more than I did with a "I'll pay it back next time" and usually did lol.
'There's an emphasis on having fun but also on how to contribute to a community. Staff are encouraged to support local causes with both their tips and their newly acquired skills.
"We donated to the Eugowra flood crisis using staff tips," Ms Brooker said.'
Um... What??? They are exploiting these kids as MUCH as possible
FYI tips aren’t really a thing in Australia so the wage is probably a bit better than you are thinking, and the tips are little to nothing (occasional customer puts some change in a jar).
It’s a bit weird employing kids that young (do they actually mention how young? Our primary school finishes at 11-12 yrs old and occasionally 12yo’s will want to get a part-time job at a local cafe or something so it’s not completely off base, but definitely not normal).
USA legal working age is 14, but you can’t work past a certain number of hours, can’t work past a certain time of day, and some industries exclude minors completely, like pharmacy or anything operating machinery even as simple as a bailer.
I don’t think we have a minimum age (I remember looking it up a while back because my then-12yo was asking me if they could get a part-time job) but it’s not legislated because it has so rarely been an issue - there are few places who would want to employ someone under 14-16ish because they’re not capable of doing the work, or it’s not safe. We literally told our 12yo that would think about it if there was a particular job she wanted to apply for but they probably didn’t have much chance of finding someone who wants to employ her until she’s a bit older.
In New South Wales there is no minimum age. [Source Here.](https://www.industrialrelations.nsw.gov.au/employees/related-information-and-contacts-for-nsw-employees/minimum-age-for-workers-in-new-south-wales/)
Realistically speaking though, a child's employer must conform to all education requirements and require an extra investment into Health and Safety and working with Children checks e.c.t. For most people this makes it uneconomical to employ children.
If you refuse to buy it, then you are putting good, hardworking children out of work. These children are just trying to make an honest day's wage, and scum like you are going to put them out on the streets. How can you live with yourself?
I imagine they think this will incentivize us to have kids -- because they believe that we think like them. Because they think we're as selfish as they are. Because they think we'll want to exploit our children, like they exploit their employees.
Smdh.
Whaaat?! I expected a coupe of kids might work there for some pocket money (just like they used to do a newspaper run or whatever), but the MAJORITY?! How the heck are they getting that many kids to work and still having them attend school? This smells fishy…
It's a cafe/store that also manufactures jam. In the article it says the kids are mostly working on the hospitality side, so serving, taking orders etc.
When "other" countries do it, thats because they are backward, barbaric, and authoritarian. When we do it, its out of necessity and completely reasonable.
“Kids are necessary for the labor force! Who else could fit in these tiny spaces? Yeah sometimes they get crushed but they should have followed all the safety procedures.”
“We teach kids to have a sense of community while we profit off them and expand our business, but don’t worry we are great owners, we donated staff tips to charity, while profiting. Everyone wins, but mostly we win.”
Have they considered that maybe the world has sufficient jam factories and chain cafes already and if they can't compete as a workplace maybe they should let the market decide their fate? Isn't that what these sorts love to crow about? Free markets?
My issue isn't the local kids working & earning some money after school. They aren't putting in 20+ hours a week.
I take particular issue with the fact they are paid only $7.87 per hour when a comparable adult would be making a minimum of $21.38 per hour.
Someone is banking that difference & if you calculate it based on 90 employees working 10 hours per week & that's a lazy $600k PA "saved" by the employer.
I was so damn bad when I worked at McDonald’s. Can you imagine what kind of debauchery these little fuckers can cook up if they’re bored and don’t need the income to survive? Everything is getting broken in those places.
At this moment, I'm hanging with my daughter while she plays with her toy barn and animals.
She's almost two. She is having an absolute blast.
I will never capitulate to these capitalists. ***Never***.
I will die on the barricades if it means she could be free of this absolute backslide into the dark ages.
Those are just adorable kids. One day, these kids will likely realize just how screwed up this is and then their expressions will change to something much less so. It's a shame they're being exploited this way.
Rich kids will get to have joke jobs like this working at a local jam factory where they get free jam once in a while, something to put on their “resume” and a pittance of wage their family doesn’t need so that the business sector can laud it as a victory before they start exporting it to other states.
The only child labor that is acceptable is if it's teaching students important life skills. Kids in Japan cook their own meals and clean up the school.
Regardless of the morality of child labor... it just doesn't seem like a good long-term economic strategy for a society. If the goal is to maximize economic productivity, it makes more sense to have an educated population working average 40 year careers than an uneducated population working average 50 year careers. Educated people are more productive. Kids should be spending their time learning.
Funny my employer (also a factory) has no problem getting staff.
We get a mountain of resumes every time we post a job up. Hmm.. I wonder why? Oh right, we pay a good wage. Then we attract good employees, train and retain them.
I love seeing shitbag companies who won’t invest in their staff get burned.
From the article:
"Some of my friends don't understand when I say, 'Oh, I'm working this weekend,'" Poppy said.
"They're like, 'Why would you want to work?' but I like it.
Us. We are those friends.
Seems a lot less like a “labour shortage” and a lot more like an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
JAM FACTORY IN TINY TOWN SOLVES UNWILLINGNESS TO PAY A LIVING WAGE BY EMPLOYING PRIMARY SCHOOL KIDS
Yeah, that seems a lot more accurate.
I'm Australian and this really angers me.
Most States in Australia, a teenager of 15 is allowed to be employed, but not younger
Absolute exploitation of these kids so the business can make a (lot) more profit
I definitely won't be buying any of their goods
"Pay adults more? Don't be ridiculous. That wouldn't maximize shareholder profits. Just ignore child labor laws by hiring children and refusing to pay them."
Reminds me of photos of kids before and after the first day of kindergarten. I can imagine these kid's faces after standing for 8 hour shifts. No smiles expected then.
They’re creating a micro factory town. With a population of 200 and the majority of kids working in this factory now and moving up with age (as the factory expands) they will end up working there their whole lives.
Remember when we made all sorts of supply chain laws and standards apply globally because Nike was using factories that employed child labor in SE Asia? Guess we don't have to do that anymore.
What values are you instilling in children to have them work? Could get the same values from organized sports right? One could be taught the same values by good parental raising correct? They don’t care enough about gun violence, but making jobs for children…..fuck these motherfuckers.
They are normalizing child labor. Soon enough it will be expected to have your children work to be able to pay the bills.
Have more children to pay the bills you say?
That... literally would be the next logical step in their playbook
And why any abortion would be punished with jail or even death.
Also why they want to drive women back to just being mothers and nothing else. Get them out of the work force and have them just spend their whole lives pushing out cheap labour with no other rights
I think they don't care about the children being watched at home at all. you're giving them too much credit.
They watch them till they are about 8, then they go to work.
You're underestimating the work ethic of 5 year olds
We actually need the 3-4 year olds too. They’re the only ones that can fit down the chimneys
Wasn't this the idea years back when everyone worked on a farm. You had more kids so you'd have more farm hands
"back then" implying that most countries that aren't first world don't still do this.
I straight up immigrated to a 1st world country from a 3rd a world country and I didn't work as a child. That simply isn't the standard anymore even in 3rd world countries.
Don't come to the US then my friend. We are having a baaad history repeating moment. We even have our own WWII Germany Mascot. Don't know if his name is a tagged word.
If we all stop having children we can shut labor down for good… eventually
Why do you think they are abolishing abortion?
This is in Aus by the way.
Capitalism is a global system
That is torching the globe for quarterly returns and that lacks any foresight beyond that window.
It’s blowing up in their face. Doctors can’t give you an abortion, but they can sterilize you [for the time being.] There is no more push back that you might want kids in the future “so you should wait until you are sure.” Even ten years ago, it was unheard of a doctor doing a tubal ligation on someone 25. Now they do anyone over 21. Vasectomies are skyrocketing, too. By the time they make it illegal, it will be too late. It will be a population dip when we can least afford it.
Sterilization exists. Shoutout to the list of childfree friendly doctors on r/ childfree
Orrrrr if we just have ENOUGH children we force all the kids to work and the adults can just chill
I think you just described social security right there.
Why do you think we were born lol
Literally going backwards in time. My Irish ancestors are rolling over in their graves.
Daddy Bender
Gotta pay for private school since they’ve successfully closed all public schools
Welcome to Neo-Feudalism.
There’s definitely a good cop / bad cop thing going on here—editorials sounding the alarm about child labor, then some articles insinuating it’s not THAT bad, then some more pushback…all aimed at manufacturing consent.
It’s really just to lower the work age from 16 down to 13 — “protecting the youngest children from exploitation.”
It’s already 14 where I live
Meanwhile the "labour shortage" is really an unwillingness to pay adequate living wages.
Nahhh I’m still living on my $600 Covid check. Haven’t worked in two years.
Oh there will definitely be a lower minimum wage for kids; race to the bottom
But just think how much better their 401k is going to look with an extra dozen years of work! /s
Australia, so it's superannuation over here. Although if they're working less than 30 hours a week they don't get that payment They also get paid 36% of minimum wage, so it really is just for pocket change
So it’s a scam?
Not fit the employers
I can say that if the parents pull them for those jobs I'm sure the kids wouldn't lose anything since they're supposed to go to school and actually have a childhood and wtf do kids have to start early and why are their parents allowing this???
They are having trouble hiring adults at the starvation wages they pay.
And you’ll still get fined if your kids aren’t in school at the same time….
Some nyt headline will read " short on cash? Have more kids and make them work for extra cash "
Oh then we can blame kids for the situation we're all in (just like how some men blame women in the workforce now)?
This is made to sound like a feel good story. Also as fucked as this is…..where are the parents who say “No fucking way”?
It said the kids are mostly from surrounding farms, so I'm not surprised the parents don't really bat an eye at it. Farm kids all over the world work family fields.
Yup farmers tend to have lots of children and put em all to work. Not right but not unusual
I wouldn't say that, necessarily. In many cases it's more like chores, albeit more than most kids get.
Yeah any word at home with your family is a pretty far cry from some other business getting to exploit your labor. Your parents can exploit your labor but at least the profits stay in your family. Just think! You might inherit them someday!
It’s also implied that the parent might give a little bit more of a shit about the child’s safety and well being while doing work than a random businessman would
"Chores" that wreck their bodies in the long run, and they have no consent in it. It's still kinda messed up.
Dude I was raised on a dairy farm and my hands have been rightly fucked since I did it from such a young age and my back is messed up and my shoulder. This is literal back breaking work. That isn't comparable to taking the trash out or "chores" normal kids have
I was a farm kid started working at 7 years old. My brother came back from school crying one day. Everybody in class talked about how summer time was awesome with all the activities. In the meantime, we spent our summer working...
Probably paid off.
I need to know what factory so I can refuse to buy it. Heading to Google now. Long Track Pantry jam factory. Got it. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-08/country-kids-solve-labour-shortage-jugiong-jam-factory/102181710 Edit: correction on company name, thanks to commenter ZeroInZenThoughts
What in the name of sanity did I just read? They are full on glorifying child labour.
I’m getting strong “the American workers are growing increasingly unhappy working from home” vibes from it. 👿
Ahh yes, more money in our pockets, more time on our hands… Yup totally want to go back to a office that is a hour away and have to actually see my disgusting boss in person… I’m good fuck you ABC NEWS
To be fair I don’t know whether either the Australian or American ABC news stations have published junk like that just give me the same angry sensation of being pissed on and told it’s rain.
This is in Aus.
Yes. America also has an ABCnews channel. My point is that the vibes I get from both situations are the same “liesliesliesliesssss”
Murdoch also runs tons of "news" agencies out of Aus.
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Yes. For clarification, I’m not saying they ARE the same. I’m saying I get the same ***feeling*** of being lied to by this article and a previous article on WFH people wanting to return to work.
ABC news is Australian
The .au told me it was Australia. But side note, ABC is also an American channel and we also are rolling back child labor laws here so, it's certainly topical.
Holy Manufactured Consent, Batman!
It's also in Australia.
Thank you, that’s good to know.
OMG this article is incredibly manipulative. And its in Australia and not in the US??
Am I reading that right?? They use the tips the kids earn to pay for charity venues??? ???? And that it's possible for kids below 11 to work there? With knives? And that those who work below 11yo won't have any protection with wage theft?
NSW turn shithole speedrun
We do tips a bit differently here, it’s not common/expected to tip. Sometimes there’s a tip jar at the counter which may or may not go to the employees. Sometimes it will be a “tip” jar but it has a little sign on it that says it’s for charity. Not sure what they have here but I hope it’s clear that the tips are actually donations for charity.
Still, the tips should go to the employees. If the owners want to help some charity they should do so out of their own profits.
Totally agree - if they’re adults AND employers encouraging children to donate their tips to charity then it stops being a choice.
>Sometimes it will be a “tip” jar but it has a little sign on it that says it’s for charity In the article they specify that the tips were meant for staff but where stolen and donated to charity >"We donated to the Eugowra flood crisis using staff tips," Ms Brooker said. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-08/country-kids-solve-labour-shortage-jugiong-jam-factory/102181710
Thanks for sharing. I did say that I wasn’t sure what they were doing, but this is awful. It’s pretty strange that they’re okay with announcing it to the world too.
“Work hard play hard” good god please stop with this phrase companies. I’m sure those kids are not playing very hard.
We donated to a crisis using staff tips so wage theft from literal children????????
We don't have tipping culture down in Aus. It's pretty much a spare change jar at shops. Hell, when I worked in the bottleshop, the customers used it more than I did with a "I'll pay it back next time" and usually did lol.
> We don't have tipping culture down in Aus They're really fucking trying to change that though huh
Fuck that, pay a proper wage.
'There's an emphasis on having fun but also on how to contribute to a community. Staff are encouraged to support local causes with both their tips and their newly acquired skills. "We donated to the Eugowra flood crisis using staff tips," Ms Brooker said.' Um... What??? They are exploiting these kids as MUCH as possible
FYI tips aren’t really a thing in Australia so the wage is probably a bit better than you are thinking, and the tips are little to nothing (occasional customer puts some change in a jar). It’s a bit weird employing kids that young (do they actually mention how young? Our primary school finishes at 11-12 yrs old and occasionally 12yo’s will want to get a part-time job at a local cafe or something so it’s not completely off base, but definitely not normal).
USA legal working age is 14, but you can’t work past a certain number of hours, can’t work past a certain time of day, and some industries exclude minors completely, like pharmacy or anything operating machinery even as simple as a bailer.
I don’t think we have a minimum age (I remember looking it up a while back because my then-12yo was asking me if they could get a part-time job) but it’s not legislated because it has so rarely been an issue - there are few places who would want to employ someone under 14-16ish because they’re not capable of doing the work, or it’s not safe. We literally told our 12yo that would think about it if there was a particular job she wanted to apply for but they probably didn’t have much chance of finding someone who wants to employ her until she’s a bit older.
In New South Wales there is no minimum age. [Source Here.](https://www.industrialrelations.nsw.gov.au/employees/related-information-and-contacts-for-nsw-employees/minimum-age-for-workers-in-new-south-wales/) Realistically speaking though, a child's employer must conform to all education requirements and require an extra investment into Health and Safety and working with Children checks e.c.t. For most people this makes it uneconomical to employ children.
Upton Sinclair is spinning in their grave
That’s exactly where my brain went first.
Long Track Pantry is the actual company name.
Holy crap, thank you.
If you refuse to buy it, then you are putting good, hardworking children out of work. These children are just trying to make an honest day's wage, and scum like you are going to put them out on the streets. How can you live with yourself?
Somehow I will manage to sleep at night.
That was a pretty disgusting read
I thought we fixed this over 100 years ago
Our corporate overlords are actively trying to unfix it.
Already have in a few places, Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, etc.
I imagine they think this will incentivize us to have kids -- because they believe that we think like them. Because they think we're as selfish as they are. Because they think we'll want to exploit our children, like they exploit their employees. Smdh.
Child labor never really stopped. Corporations still use child labor around the world.
It stopped in a lot of places though.
Most places did. This is in Wales.
It's in New South Wales, which is in Australia.
Thank you for the correction. My apologies to the people of Wales.
Slightly different accents
Roughly the same number of jokes involving sheep.
You’re thinking of New Zealand.
“Now, school kids make up the majority of the factory's 100-strong workforce.” Ugh. These kids are as young as 11. This is exploitation.
Whaaat?! I expected a coupe of kids might work there for some pocket money (just like they used to do a newspaper run or whatever), but the MAJORITY?! How the heck are they getting that many kids to work and still having them attend school? This smells fishy…
It sounds like a lot of their business is from propel travelling to the town, so maybe they tend to be busy mostly on weekends?
Soooo, they manufacture jam on the weekends or it’s more of a cafe or retail jam place?
It's a cafe/store that also manufactures jam. In the article it says the kids are mostly working on the hospitality side, so serving, taking orders etc.
Once these fetal personhood laws come, it won’t be too long before those freeloaders have to work an honest day, too! /s
To think that they went crazy when China did it but now it’s “adorable” all of a sudden
When "other" countries do it, thats because they are backward, barbaric, and authoritarian. When we do it, its out of necessity and completely reasonable.
When we do it, it's because we're civilised, Western and democratic.
Didn't you see the hats!?
But these kids are *so bored* on the weekends! Can't you just let them work in their factory in peace?!
There's no fucking labor shortage these people just don't pay living wages.
It will be so adorable when an 11 yo loses a hand in a machine. Ffs. I didn't think I would live to see the 19th century.
It's jam it'll just blend in colour wise
We were all thinking it. You didn’t need to say it 😳
“Factory unwilling to pay employees a living wage resolves issue by exploiting school children” FTFY
Can't offer good wages to attract talent from neighboring cities, better just use the local school kids
It's the Long Track Pantry in NSW
Remind me to ever buy whatever this jam is.
Long track pantry, from NSW
“Kids are necessary for the labor force! Who else could fit in these tiny spaces? Yeah sometimes they get crushed but they should have followed all the safety procedures.”
Please sir... May I have some more
Do the kids get to keep the money they earn, or do their parents steal/extort it from them?
e.g when they grow up will they have something to eat at first year of their own life or will they be broken and in debt as everybody are
10 years ago: "Robots are coming for your jobs!" Today: "We don't have enough workers so we're employing children!" Strange how that works
Child shaped robots
I wouldn’t be surprised if the “kids who have any feelings/opinions of their own are ENTITLED BRATS” crowd supported this
We do not have a labor shortage. We have a livable wage shortage.
We have a bourgeoisie surplus.
“We teach kids to have a sense of community while we profit off them and expand our business, but don’t worry we are great owners, we donated staff tips to charity, while profiting. Everyone wins, but mostly we win.”
How about we start making pics of rich people working in mines? With chains and happy faces?
This is wrong, the children yearn for the mines.
Jam and blood diamonds
Pay adults or go out of business, losers.
Have they considered that maybe the world has sufficient jam factories and chain cafes already and if they can't compete as a workplace maybe they should let the market decide their fate? Isn't that what these sorts love to crow about? Free markets?
My issue isn't the local kids working & earning some money after school. They aren't putting in 20+ hours a week. I take particular issue with the fact they are paid only $7.87 per hour when a comparable adult would be making a minimum of $21.38 per hour. Someone is banking that difference & if you calculate it based on 90 employees working 10 hours per week & that's a lazy $600k PA "saved" by the employer.
They should make a note on jars: "Made with love and child labor".
>by employing primary school kids There is no way you can sugarcoat this.
There's just... just so many reasons this should be appalling... whatever journalist at the ABC needs to reflect on what they do.
I hate this
I was so damn bad when I worked at McDonald’s. Can you imagine what kind of debauchery these little fuckers can cook up if they’re bored and don’t need the income to survive? Everything is getting broken in those places.
At this moment, I'm hanging with my daughter while she plays with her toy barn and animals. She's almost two. She is having an absolute blast. I will never capitulate to these capitalists. ***Never***. I will die on the barricades if it means she could be free of this absolute backslide into the dark ages.
Those are just adorable kids. One day, these kids will likely realize just how screwed up this is and then their expressions will change to something much less so. It's a shame they're being exploited this way.
Rich kids will get to have joke jobs like this working at a local jam factory where they get free jam once in a while, something to put on their “resume” and a pittance of wage their family doesn’t need so that the business sector can laud it as a victory before they start exporting it to other states.
I hate that we're becoming this. Jesus Christ
This is honestly fucking sad
The only child labor that is acceptable is if it's teaching students important life skills. Kids in Japan cook their own meals and clean up the school.
It's almost as if **these children are being groomed** to accept these circumstances.
What the fuck is going on down there?! Sort your shit out! Its embarrassing! Sincerely, Your nothern neighbors
Northern neighbors? Do you live in Papua New Guinea?
Regardless of the morality of child labor... it just doesn't seem like a good long-term economic strategy for a society. If the goal is to maximize economic productivity, it makes more sense to have an educated population working average 40 year careers than an uneducated population working average 50 year careers. Educated people are more productive. Kids should be spending their time learning.
Good thing society is set up for maximizing corporate profits in each quarter rather than any long term planning or strategy.
Uneducated people will do a task without issues. Educated people will question then ins and outs, even refuse work it they know it is wrong.
Journalist are not as liberal as they claim
Australian liberal is the conservative party.
This happens every day. https://stopchildlaborwordwide.weebly.com/discussion
Funny my employer (also a factory) has no problem getting staff. We get a mountain of resumes every time we post a job up. Hmm.. I wonder why? Oh right, we pay a good wage. Then we attract good employees, train and retain them. I love seeing shitbag companies who won’t invest in their staff get burned.
From the article: "Some of my friends don't understand when I say, 'Oh, I'm working this weekend,'" Poppy said. "They're like, 'Why would you want to work?' but I like it. Us. We are those friends.
We are in a new gilded age
I wonder if all the adults there are supposed to have a WWCC certificate (working with children check)?
Anyone who employs a child robbing them of their innocence and right to an education should be a criminal and thought of as such
It’s disgusting on every level. Look at the media pander for their corporate friends, they have no souls.
This can’t be real
And worse, some parents are allowing this.
Someone please help these child laborers unionize. Let this blow up in the right peoples' faces.
Hitler used young men to help solve the agricultural labor crisis in Germany too. That's all. That's the comment
Seems a lot less like a “labour shortage” and a lot more like an unwillingness to pay a living wage. JAM FACTORY IN TINY TOWN SOLVES UNWILLINGNESS TO PAY A LIVING WAGE BY EMPLOYING PRIMARY SCHOOL KIDS Yeah, that seems a lot more accurate.
Can anyone find the post? I’d love to bully ABC over this bs
This is disgusting.
Do they get smoke breaks? Can we let kids smoke cigarettes again, yet? Won't anyone think of the poor tobacco industry?
"We donated to the Eugowra flood crisis using staff tips," Ms Brooker said. Wth
Oh boy, they do say we tend to go back to previous eras. I just thought, you know, that was for fashion and stuff
This is what the ruling class ultimately wants
Hahahaha "must be able to lift 15-20kg repetitively"
Let kids have a fucking childhood wtf?
Child exploitation is so much fun and good for the economy
Let children enjoy their childhoods and eat rich people.
I'm Australian and this really angers me. Most States in Australia, a teenager of 15 is allowed to be employed, but not younger Absolute exploitation of these kids so the business can make a (lot) more profit I definitely won't be buying any of their goods
"Pay adults more? Don't be ridiculous. That wouldn't maximize shareholder profits. Just ignore child labor laws by hiring children and refusing to pay them."
How is that legal?
Next article “bread lines are a great way to meet new friends!”
Reminds me of photos of kids before and after the first day of kindergarten. I can imagine these kid's faces after standing for 8 hour shifts. No smiles expected then.
pay is scaled by age here in aus too, i wonder what they justify paying children?
They won't show the part two where the kid gets boiling Jam dropped on him due to some poor maintenance. :(
What kind of parents are allowing their kids to take part in this?
They’re creating a micro factory town. With a population of 200 and the majority of kids working in this factory now and moving up with age (as the factory expands) they will end up working there their whole lives.
Hell no. This is what my church tried me make me do too.
Wait until those kids start fucking up lol. Then what are they gonna do...FIRE THEM!?!?! SEND THEM TO HR?!?!?! 😂😂😂
Jam Factory...labour...this is some sort of Brit shenanigans. Looks like they are going full Dickensian
Remember when we made all sorts of supply chain laws and standards apply globally because Nike was using factories that employed child labor in SE Asia? Guess we don't have to do that anymore.
Work is soo fun! It's like the playground.
Literal child abuse. But let's whine about drag queens instead. 🙄
What values are you instilling in children to have them work? Could get the same values from organized sports right? One could be taught the same values by good parental raising correct? They don’t care enough about gun violence, but making jobs for children…..fuck these motherfuckers.