Like most 14-year-olds, Ryan Konowec is on school holidays. But unlike most of his classmates, he is spending his holidays working four days a week at a turf farm.
While recruiting family members to help out is not unusual for small businesses and farms, Lang warned that red tape and complicated legislation were making it difficult for business owners to legally employ young staff.
NSW, South Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory do not have a minimum age to work, with exceptions around how many hours can be worked in certain industries and age brackets. But Lang warned the convention could further complicate things for small businesses which often do not have dedicated human resources staff. Lang believes there should be a simplified small business award rate to make things “simpler and fairer”.
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