worker? Young worker are uncommitted to their jobs and their employers and have unreasonably high expectation from their jobs. Young worker are individualistic and reject the collective underpinning of trade unionism. (Oliver 2006, p.1). In this case, young people can be at particular risk because they lack experience, training and awareness. (European Agency for Safety and Health at Work 2006, p.2). And the employers will give them less salary than the old workers. Due to the special characteristic of young workers, they are more easily treated as the vulnerable workers with the low level of pay and conditions. Thus, vulnerable young worker’s problem is still increasing in the workplace, for example: young workers were regarded as the informal staffs in the workplace. They can not have the same treatment as the formal workers. What’s more, the safety at work can not be promised even though the all the employers have responsibilities for ensuring the health, safety and welfare for the employees in the workplace. The young workers feel that their health and safety have risk because their job. As can be seen from the report, the number of workers who aged 18-24 years old was more easily to occurred non- fatal accidents than the old staffs in the workplace. (European Agency for Safety and Health at Work of young workers 2007, p. 4). In this essay, I will argue that young workers are more easily to explicate than the old people in the workplace. What’s more, it will also analyze how to protect the rights of the young worker
Topic: Some commentators argue that young workers are more vulnerable than older workers to exploitation regarding pay, working conditions and other workplace issues. Critically analyze this view, and in doing so evaluate the major responses by the state, employers and unions to the ‘problem’ of young workers.
By tracing changes in the philosophies underpinning youth work, it is clear that the circumstances of young people have changed considerably in recent years. (Furlong et al, 1997 p.5). So what is young
