Should 14 year olds have jobs? 14 year-old Mallory got a job at an ice packing business. One night she was bagging ice and she realized that one of the bags wasn't filled all the way. So she went to the ice machine to get some more ice. The bag fell out of her hands and she went to go grab the bag and the machine pulled her hands into the ice machine. It took the paramedics 55 minutes to figure out how to get her hands out of the machine. She is now unable to do the things she loved to do (Stats and Stories). Age 14 is the minimum for when students are able to get a job. Students 14 and under should not be able to work because teens need 7-10 hours of sleep a night, there can be more stress on them and injury rates are higher with 12 - 14 years old. Studies show that teens need at least 7-10 hours of sleep each night. Kids that are 14 years …show more content…
Some people do believe that 14 year olds should have jobs. “Because young teens should be able to work because it helps with their responsibility, their family’s wealth and preparing them for the future.” (Should 14 Year Olds Have Jobs) But, students become very stressed, not getting enough sleep, and don't get enough time to themselves. Students need to be a kid for as long as they can until they have to get a job. Kids shouldn't have jobs until the ages 16 or 17, they need to be able to do well in school and be well rested. Overall, students 14 and under should not be able to work because, they have to much going on in their lives and need to focus on that. Most students 14 years old that have jobs don't get the 7-10 hours of sleep they need each night. They have more stress on them because they are trying to balance school, work, sports and a regular teenage lifestyle, and kids can be easily distracted which can lead to injuries. Hopefully there are more kids out there that would be more careful than Mallory was, so they don't end up permanently hurt and cannot conclude their
If age is the only thing that separates the workers from one- another it makes no sense to not let all workers working the same duties to make the same amount of money. That worker is doing just as much work and working just as hard as the others. The last statement to explain my reasoning is in the text it states, “… especially when there’s little evidence to suggest that business would be more likely to hire teens if they could pay them less than adults” (Watkins 23). This reasoning would make teenagers as well as adults trying to get employed unhappy. It creates fewer adults to get jobs and teens are still not making money. In conclusion, teens should not be paid less than adults. Wage discrimination based on age is not fair and based on the following reasons needs to be
Sleep! That wonderful, blissful void between last night and this morning. Sleep is one of the most basic functions of life. Nearly all creatures must sleep in order to properly carry out tasks; teenagers are no exception. The typical teenager needs an average of nine to ten hours of sleep a night in order for their brains to be capable of working at full capacity. School starts so early that they infringe upon that basic necessity. In order for teens to receive an adequate amount of sleep, it is mandatory to enact later start times for high schools across the country.
Currently there are laws and regulations that protect children from working in hazardous workplaces at a young age. The article, "The Impact of Discrimination on Working Children and on the Phenomenon of Child Labour” mentions the Fair Labor Standards Act passed in 1938 under President Franklin D. Roosevelt not only set the minimum wage but also banned children under the age of sixteen from working. This act led to the decline of child labor in the United States over a period of time. For the first time after a long time, children did not have to work in hazardous workplaces and risk their lives. Children were able to live their childhood and did not have to grow up so fast. In add...
Many businesses and factories hired children because they were easier to exploit; they could be paid less for more work in dangerous conditions. Plus, their small size made many children idea for working with small parts or fitting into small spaces. Children as young as four could be found working in factories, though most were between eight and twelve. Despite the economic gains made by the business that employed them, many children suffered in the workplace. The industrial setting caused many health problems for the children that, if they lived long enough, they would carry with them for the rest of their lives. Children were also more likely to face accidents in the workplace, often caused by fatigue, and many were seriously injured or killed. Despite efforts by reformers to regulate child labor, it wasn’t until the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 that children under 14 were prohibited from
What if your young son or daughter was working in a big factory, breathing in bad chemicals, and losing fingers in the machinery? Would you be okay with that? I highly doubt you would be. The conditions of factories can be terrible, unsafe, and unhealthy for children to work in for extended periods of time. These children can get respiratory problems, diseases, and many other conditions, just because they are working there. These things would be happening if the government never stepped in and made rules. I therefore believe the government should be allowed to restrict child labor, including the hours, the pay, education requirements,
The Health and Morals Act of 1802 limited children under fourteen from working over twelve hours a day (Doc 3). The factor Act of 1833, which enacted that no person under 18 years of age shall be allowed to work at night in machinery (Doc 4). It allowed the child under 18 to work less than 12 hours a day or less than 69 hours in any one-week. There was a ten hours act, which said that the women or children's limit workdays are 10 hours.
Sowell argues that, “… in the United States, unemployment rates for younger workers are often 20 percent or higher, even when there is no recession.” These jobs pay low wages for a reason. So that teenagers have a base to start their life as an employee. If this continues than teenagers will never have the opportunity to gain experience to eventually get hired at a higher level job. It will be nearly impossible for future generations to find a job. Unemployed will lose many opportunities to earn a higher rate of pay in the
Jobs won’t only support teens for the things they want, but it can help benefit for the things they need. The first things teens think of for their future are going to college and getting their first car. But, let’s say there’s a well educated thirteen-year-old, raised in a low-income family, who has plans on going to college. There’s no way their family can support him to go to college, and its funds could be over-whelming. The only way they could go to college is if they started saving at an early age. Therefore, if they got a job at the age they were at now, they’d be on their way to college by the time they graduate high school. Or, another example would be, if a teen wanted to get their first car on their sixteenth birthday. As you may know, many teens don’t get things handed to them on a silver platter, so they’d have to buy that car themselves. They might be old enough to drive, but they just turned the legal working age. Once they get a job, they’d have to wait at least a year to have enough money for the car as well as its insurance.
For millions of teenagers working in the American workforce, being sexually harassed is not an uncommon occurrence in their daily work environment. Unfortunately, teenagers in the workforce become particularly vulnerable to acts of harassment because they lack awareness about their rights as an employee and do not have enough work experience or maturity to address situations that arise in the work environment. These teenagers are usually part-time workers, overlooked for training, view their supervisors as having the ultimate authority over their job, and are more likely to be unaware of harassment policies than other workers within the workforce. Despite all of these factors, more and more organizations in industries like retail (i.e. Kmart), entertainment (i.e. movie theatres), and food services (i.e. McDonalds) to be specific, have turned to teenagers as a key source of labor. In doing so, these organizations have exposed themselves to the liability of protecting the youth that they employ and must take even greater measures to prevent these teenagers from being subjected to a hostile work environment.
Sleep is a fundamental need for everyone who needs sleep. Sleep is as important as eating food and drinking fluids. But teenagers are the ones seen not getting enough sleep at night. It is proven that teenagers get the minimum hours of sleep than any other age group. Teenagers are seen getting about five hours or less of sleep each night. Lack of sleep can affect many thing in a negative way. Sleep deprivation can affect things such as abilities to learn, listen, pay attention, and drive. It can also affect someone's mental health and physical health.
In the early 19th century parliament passed laws to reduce child labor. However, they all proved to not be an obligation. The first effective law was passed in 1833 and it was effective do to the fact that for the first time factory inspectors were doing their job to make sure the law was obeyed. The new law banned children under 9 from working in textile factories. The law said that children ages 9 to 13 must not work for more than 12 hours a day or 48 hours a week and children aged 13 to 18 must not work for more than 69 hours a week. Children ages 9 to 13 were allowed 2 hours of education a day.
Teens need about 9 to 10 hours of sleep each night to function best. Most teens do not get enough sleep. One study found that 85% students didn’t get enough sleep on school nights.
All in all, it is strongly suggested that teenagers to work while in high school. They obtain a lot of benefits from working, such as becoming more responsibe, practicing time effectively, and providing some experiences that will prepare for their future. Having a job while attending school is quite hard. However, a self motivated and well organized person may find it easy to balance work and school.
...to the fact the being employed increases college graduation rate and teaches many skills that are not taught with in any level of school. The issue is increased as because many of these teenagers are also not in school. A possible solution to this problem is for companies to offer apprenticeships to promising high school students.
There are, in some cases, firms that employ young and inexperienced workers, as mentioned before they are usually known as "youth friendly industries". Industries such as McDonalds, Coles/Myer, Safeway/Woolworths and KFC just to name a few, are the leading retail and takeaway outlets employing youth. Not only do they employ them but they provide them with the essential training to perform their duties with maximum efficiency. Some people see working as an obstacle towards school and homework and others don't want to work for ridiculously low pay. In conjunction with a high youth unemployment rate the government has introduced schemes to counteract this problem and to keep the youth population in school and out of the workforce.