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Starting-out wage will help young people onto job ladder

Media statement Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Starting-out wage will help young people step onto job ladder

Everyone concerned about our alarming rates of youth unemployment should be celebrating today's announcement on the Starting-out wage, says David Lowe, Employment Services Manager for the Employers and Manufacturers Association.

Then they will be looking out for more ways to help, he said.

"Without an incentive an employer with a choice between an experienced worker and an inexperienced worker will choose experience every time," Mr Lowe said.

"Though there is no silver bullet for creating jobs for young people, the Starting-out wage offers a vital first step up the employment ladder.

"Unless there is an incentive for taking on the added issues of employing youth workers, young people will continue to be over represented in the unemployment numbers.

"The Starting-out wage will restore a form of youth rates that were abolished in 2006 and which proved, as predicted, to hurt the very people its supporters were trying to help.

"Independent research from Pacheco at the time found job opportunities for youth would fall by nearly 20 per cent for all teenagers if youth rates were abolished, but that turned out to be very conservative."
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