There are many risks involved in worker places. This is indiscrimination against both men and women. The rising standard of living, which has consequently resulted in rising costs of living, is expressing a great challenge to the governments of the various states of the globe.
Although there has been an eminent increase in the revolution of industries throughout the globe, the problems related to employment in many parts of the world stand out as a core challenge to be tackled. Since the introduction of the new technology which has brought with it ways of earning a job, many young people remain optimistic about securing better jobs. However, the dreams of such juveniles have remained to be illusions in their lives for many reasons, which are compounded by an array of factors.
The population of the youthful stage individual has increased dramatically in the past two to three decades. This has created a lot of pressure within the employment sector, making the matter in Australia a highly debatable trend. Although it is said that there are relative increments with respect to the increases in the population, many leaders are worried about the high rates of unemployed younger people. The Australian statistics show that a population of 170,000 of person enters the labor market every year. Further reviews have estimated that this number is going to ultimately increase within the next few years from this normal rate to 175 000. This is anticipated to create a new way of solving the challenges of unemployment. However, some studies that are reliable population research have also produced a fore report that portrays a corresponding increase in the number of young people who would enter the work search by this anticipated event. (Cooke, 2003).
In Australia, young people who are defined to be those people aged between fifteen and twenty-four years, form a considerable segment in the labor market. The currents employed workers s of this age brackets in the Australian state makes twenty percent of the Australians labor forces. This is composed of those people who are part-time and full-time workers. The Australian is thus making a great numbers of its worker forces from the old people. Some of the younger workers are being forced by circumstances to work to earn their living. Others do work to gain some professional experience, which is fundamental to the securing of a good job opportunity in both the public and private sectors. The focus on the tender group entering the labor market has attracted many people and especially in Australia, where they claim that there has been a decrease in the trend of those adult older workers who are gaining jobs every year.
The increase of the younger workers in the labor as then resulted to either misuse of the efforts by the employers. The employers are taking the chance to exploits the youth from their services which are a grieving and thoroughly uncouth approach to wealthy gain. Many employers are also using young workers to practices unethical business activities. Such activities are significant in the lives of the young workers. So, the impacts of younger workers and those older workers are easily seen as different from many different points of views which are reviewed through exploitation by the employers to the younger labors. There are many reasons for which the younger workers in this state are suffering so greatly. Their sufferings are not exclusive of the ways now decisions are made by the legislators as well as the economics status of the country. Thus, the effect of which involving this essential parts of country development affects both the old and the youth.
The younger workers of the Australia is much vulnerable than the old workers because young workers are less informed about their employment. The looming high populations in the country such as Australia have yielded to low employment opportunities. This makes many young job seekers to get indulged in to the tasks which opens up with greedy sort of behavior. The haste need to secure the opportunity takes precede than first enquiring more about the employment working conditions and remunerations. These are mostly casuals who just fight to earn their daily breads rather than get the full returns in respect to work done. This is contrary to the expectation of many people who believe on the world of technology. It is with much interest that these individual could to have the patience and gets the relevant information as information is power to freedom and liberation. The blindly entry to job markets without consulting the protocol used by the old workers when demand for workers was high makes the young workers to experience considerable difficulties as they operate on their daily chores. Every worker in the work system is like a machines being operated by a buyer. If in the beginning there is no agreement met by the employers, the advantage remains on the hands of those with power and authority who is the employers. Hence, the first point of the exploitation of the younger more than the older workers emerges from the lack of the rights and responsibilities of the new employees. From the research reports on a particular surveys in Australia, it was found that forty three percent of the younger workers did not get the information about theirs position they were being employed for. (Gomez, 2002).
It also seems the rising lack of employment opportunities has created another menaces in the fields of remunerations. Although, a numbers of young workers are brilliant in attempting to have what it takes to be a heroes of knowledge, other situations have proves to be out of their controls. Some young workers are conscious of their work rights. This does not mean much to them in the workplaces as they acknowledge that they are and are not met in most cases. This is because they either remain to be ignorant to the remedies and dispute procedures that are available to them. When the Victorian survey was conducted in the southern Australia, it was an amazing outcome to find out that one in ten workers was Aware that he was being rewards less than the expected returns of his/ her work.. Furthers reviews were even of surprises when many denounce to the probes of the survey that they much conscious of the requirement for breaks and the working hours in a day. However, the respondents from these young workers exclusively showed that they routinely worked through their breaks without questioning. Apart from going through all this trail work without breaks, in the evening breaking time for home rest was always interrupted with extensions of working hour for an hour or more. This over time work was usually unpaid. This was contrary to the situations of working in the sector where older workers were frequently in entire informed arena of theirs responsibilities and duties as well as in the remuneration for every working hour as overtime. Hence, the concern of the younger workers in relation to the industrial employment bodies systems becomes essential in the rescue of the new recruits of the present and in the futures times come. (McDonald, 2005).
In the process of enlightening the younger workers to attain the level at which they can examine their issues with vigor, a lot of efforts are needed. As the adage goes “two heads are better than one”. This drives us to the cooperate operation which may push those who have lagging behind in the knowledge a step a head as well as those whose stumbling block while they have the knowledge to empower them to take the necessary steps fro their rights. The formation of unions in the many countries by organization of workers has been the order of the day. there are a number of them in the Australian state. Like in any other country, they are highly valued as bodies of providing safety to workers. Thus they are high respected as they form the avenues for workers voice both the young workers and old ones. This is because the express a strong collectives base which eminent bargaining powers for the rights of workers. The Australia labor force portrays a wide disparity in the involvements of the labor union of the older and young workers. This is because the percentage of young workers who enjoy the fruits of being members of a union accounts for less than sixteen percent of the age bracket of 16 to 24 years. This is the lowest proportion of workers. The average density is estimated to be below twenty six percent. The millennium report depicts that the union density is least for casual work clusters which exactly includes those students working as parts time jobs and those younger workers who have recently finished their secondary education studies. This low union association by the younger worker exactly means that little can be achieved for them, hence older worker preserve the privilege of having their issue tackled in great care as they is a body to fight for them. (Lowe, 2000).
The physical working conditions are very much important in the production of the goods results in any industry or department of employment. The use of the new technologies has brought with them high risks in the global work systems. The coming up of new technologies called for the training and exposure of the old employees to the inventions and innovations of recent technologies. As many employers considered this to be an additional cost to train its old employees so that they may be compatible with the new machine rather than the manual works, they prefer to take fresh trained job seeker. The working of such machines especially those which are computerized poses great threat to the environment of the user of the machines. Then, the dominance of younger workers in the use of such machine makes them to be more vulnerable than older workers. Moreover, the use of young workers in the others hand who have not gained experiences and are not mature in the mentally to enable them to critically think of the effects of some actions make young workers vulnerable. for instance, the demonstration on reasoning to achieve a particular goal of young employee is far beyond the reasoning capacity for an old employee. In one instance, a seventeen year old bagger ground his hands as he operated machines for grind meat. This awful incident occurred following the meat stacking on the grinder bowl whereby he decided to push the meat with his hand down to the rotating machine. the employer considered this as lack of reasoning ability and consequently the conflict over the issue made the victim to be dismissed off work. This was not only mistreating to the employee but it was also a show of poor working conditions where the workers are not provided with the necessary tools and equipments. In addition the chasing away of the employees by the employers showed the vulnerability of young men to bullying conditions. (Barnes, 2000).
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