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School students and part-time work : Workplace problems and challenges

- Smith, Erica, Patton, Wendy

  • Authors: Smith, Erica , Patton, Wendy
  • Date: 2009
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Youth Studies Australia Vol. 28, no. 3 (2009), p. 21-30
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  • Description: The literature has identified some potential problems and challenges associated with teenage part-time workers and the nature of the workplaces that employ them. However a large national project on student-working found few problems in the two companies researched because these companies had policies in place that addressed the potential problems. Some suggestions are made about how problems and challenges could be avoided in a wider range of adolescent workplaces.

Part-time working by students : is it a policy issue, and for whom?

- Smith, Erica, Patton, Wendy

  • Authors: Smith, Erica , Patton, Wendy
  • Date: 2013
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Journal of Education and Work Vol. 26, no. 1 (2013), p. 48-76
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  • Description: This paper uses data from interviews with representatives of national and state organisations that have a policy interest in student-working in Australia. The interviewees included representatives from employer bodies and trade unions as well as government organisations. The data are used to discuss these stakeholders' perceptions of the main advantages and disadvantages of working by young full-time students and the ways in which organisations in the business and educational sectors have adapted their policies and practices for student-working. The analysis is then used to inform a discussion about whether this is a legitimate area for public policy formulation and if so, what principles might underpin such policy and what some policies might look like. © 2013 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.
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