Teenage Workers in Fast Food Industry

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They Deserve More Fast food industry has many Federal, state and local laws. Employers in the fast food industry don’t follow the currently enacted laws which cause workers to be treated as employees of inferior category. A big number of employees in the fast food industry is made up of youth under 18 years of age. They often have no experience at work which makes them easy targets to manipulate; they are more vulnerable to assault from criminals, co-workers or managers. There are laws for youth employment; these laws determine the number of hours which youth can work, length of the shifts and type of work they may perform. Fast food workers are not only the restaurant workers; they are also workers on the farms, which provide the fresh products necessary to run the restaurants. It is not easy for 16 or 17 years old to find a job, especially when percentage of teen unemployment reaches as high as last summer; when they finally have an opportunity to work, managers in fast food restaurants do not treat them seriously. In article “In Summer Job Hunt, Smile Can Only Help” by Kim Wilmath are included statistics which shows that: “Last week (June 2011) , Saltsman’s institute released an analysis of 25 states showing that unemployment among 16- to 19-years-olds averages 25 percent when you count discouraged teens who have quit looking. In 10 states, […], it tops 30 percent”. This article also contains statement from the summer job hunt by 18-year-old Te’a from Florida. She demonstrates how candidates for work are treating by managers. “At Little Ceasars, they told her to come back when a supervisor was there. She came back, but never met the right person. At Burger King, she was told they only took applications online. So she went home, filled one out and went back […]. They told her she filled it out wrong” (In Summer Job Hunt, Smile Can Only
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