BTW, the PM wants states to allow children (under 18s) to drive forklifts to ease staff shortages.
This is undoubtedly what will happen.
What's funny is that everyone else over 18 in the warehouse/factory will then have to apply for a Working With Children Check if they'll be supervising.
@Klaatu_Veratta_Nectarine @vozoto
They want to let them drive tractor trailers here now...
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@InvaderGzim @Klaatu_Veratta_Nectarine @vozoto
We give 16yr olds drivers licenses and put 18yrs olds in charge of 65 ton Main Battle Tanks.
@Render @Klaatu_Veratta_Nectarine @vozoto
Sure. But those 16s normally only drive cars.
And those 18s aren’t normally on public streets.
@InvaderGzim @Render @Klaatu_Veratta_Nectarine yes, I was going to add teens on farms regularly drive tractors, but that's in a field, on private land, far from anyone else.
@vozoto @InvaderGzim @Render @Klaatu_Veratta_Nectarine In our rural town farm kids drive their tractors to school.
@vozoto And more importantly supervised by their parents who own the equipment and insure it and theoretically at least have a good idea of their kids abilities have trained them and will insure they get their homework done etc. Totally different. @InvaderGzim @Render
@vozoto @InvaderGzim @Render but no corporation would ever take advantage of workers. . .... Stares hard in Amazon warehouse.
@vozoto
When I was in HS in the late 70s, students drove school buses.
@vozoto bingo. It's not that I don't believe teens under 18 are not capable of doing the job, I know they are, I've just seen some terrible things between working ER, agricultural accidents in my own family and working contract for years for OSHA. There is a huge possibility that they would be taken advantage of.
I mean, teens are capable of doing a lot of things, but operating heavy machinery shouldn't be on the list, seeing as how someone got killed in a forklift accident just this Tuesday.