yes or no

[babiee-casey]

Dont you think 14-15 people should be imployed if they think they can handle it so why not give them a chance??
please comment bac soon!!!!!

[Androcles]

I presume you mean people aged between 14 and 15. It is not a matter of whether they can handle it - try looking at the Employment Law situation and see if as an employer with those responsibilities, you would risk it!

[babiee-casey]

true but they should open a place its for 14-15 year olds to accturly want to do something with their life !

[Androcles]

There have - it's called school and college!

[babiee-casey]

okii yerr there's thaa buhh you dont get paid for that teenagers need money to support there family :s

[Androcles]

How many kids do you have then?

[CheekyChops]

14-15 year olds can get jobs if they want them but the laws regarding employment of young people are so strict that most employers don't bother.

You are restricted to the amount of hours that you can work and also the times, this is because it would probably impact on your education if you were allowed to do more so is a valid reason.

Have a look here: http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/YoungPeople/Workan dcareers/Yourrightsandresponsibilitiesatwork/D G_066272

[Lil O'lady]

Your multiple postings are interesting. This is something you have a real bee in your bonnet about isn't it?
Until the early 1970's 15-year-olds could leave school and work full time without having to sit school exams.
In the 1970's this country began to lose jobs and so since then the government has regularly upped the school-leaving age, to mask the terribly high unemployment figures, and to try and force the creation of a skilled workforce - most British workers before the 1970's were unskilled.
As a person who has taught for thirty years, I would be delighted to see 12 -year -olds working if they didn't want to be in school. Many kids learn little in school after this age.

But the current law says they can't. So your job as a citizen (remember all those PSHE lessons?) is to badger members of parliament to change the law, and to use your vote when you are 18 to support your views. This will be a useful channel for your frustration, whereas sounding off in this forum will get you nowhere.

[tamborine]

Offer yourself for gardening/errands/dog walking to local neighbors - they can pay you. Commercial businesses cant as its illegal.

[cassa333]

There is the small matter of the law but to be honest it doesn't matter if you thought you could do it it would matter if the employer thought you could do it.

As with any age the employer employes people they think will be good at the job.

[factor-fiction]

If after 10 years at school someone still can't spell words such as 'back', 'actually', 'but' and 'employment' then maybe education isn't working for them and there's not much point in wasting another 2 years at school.
However the system is such that children are expected to stay in education now to 16 or 18.
You can't change this so make the best of it: concentrate on picking up the skills employers look for (reasonable standards of literacy and numeracy), try to get some qualifications and seek to obtain some part time work.