Child and Youth Employment Standards

(Vancouver) A new study that surveyed public school students raises
concerns that BC’s employment regulations are leaving children and
youth without adequate protections in the workplace.

“For many young people, paid work is a positive experience,” says
Stephen McBride, lead author of the Canadian Centre for Policy
Alternatives study and a Professor of Political Science at Simon Fraser
University. “But the survey responses indicate that in many cases, the
regulations employers and parents are supposed to follow when hiring
young workers are being ignored.”