9.6 - Individuals and work: Youth Employment Flashcards
Youth employment
Youth:
- Aged between 15-24 years
- Transitioning between formal education to employment
- Skills benefit them to adapt from financially dependent teen to independent working adult.
Issues that impact on youth employment
Personal management skills required in the workplace
- Planning and organising: Planning, organising, implementing, evaluating
- Communication: Verbal and non verbal
- Decision making: intuitive, rational, confident, hesitant, impulsive.
- Problem solving: Mediator, W/W, W/L, L/L (outcomes)
Why are personal management skills important
- Efficiency
- Work well together in groups
- Less conflict
- Less micromanagement (more responsibility)
- Better relationships
Issues that impact on youth employment
Step taken to prepare and plan for a carer
- Understanding that many types of occupations and roles within a workplace needs to develop a career plan.
- Starting this process later in schooling creates pressure and may lead to poor decisions.
3 areas of preparing and planning for a career:
- Study: TAFE or uni
- Training and hands on experiences: apprenticeship, work experience
- Marketing yourself: interview skills
By achieving each of these area and applying yourself can optimise their employment.
Issues that impact on youth employment
Predominant patterns of work at a young age
TIME OF YEAR:
- Between April-October there is small change in participation.
- Between November-March there is a major increase in participation.
- Increases coincide with school and university holidays, former education for HSC leavers etc.
JOB TYPE:
- Their type of job would usually dictate their working pattern.
- There is also a 24hr demand in places e.g. fast food
CARERS CHOICE:
- Those who have taken up apprenticeship working patters will differ from those combining work and studies responsibilities.
Issues that impact on youth employment
Rights and responsibilities
- Rights and responsibilities for youth are the same of all employees.
EXAMPLE: Rates of pay, leave entitlements, safety, on job training, protection from discrimination and having a contract amended to Award.
Issues that impact on youth employment
Rights and responsibilities
it is important for a young person to know:
- There is no legal minimum working age.
- By law, you must be paid during the trial or probation period that commonly goes for 3-6 months.
- Prior to accepting the job…CHECK THE CONTRACT.
- You must be paid in money.
- Apprentice need to be registered through the authorized Australian apprentice centre.
- Your employer cannot make deductions without your written permission.
