Youth groups and youth workers must address the "astonishing level of ignorance" among young people regarding their working rights, according to speakers at a seminar staged by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Youth Affairs to brief MPs on the minimum wage for 16- and 17-year-olds.
"The minimum wage is, arguably, one of the most important employment rights brought in by this Government, but according to our research only one in five 16- to 21-year-olds know what the minimum rate is," says Raj Jethwa, organising officer at the workers' union the TUC. "That is the astonishing level of ignorance we are dealing with. The message of the minimum wage has not got out to young people."
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