The call comes in the latest issue of Spotlight - The National Youth Agency's series of briefing papers - which responds to the Government's Skills Strategy White Paper. While welcoming some aspects of the White Paper, Spotlight suggests how its proposals might impact on young people and raises issues which it does not address.
The agency is also calling for the introduction of the adult rate national minimum wage at age 16, which it believes would motivate young people into gaining employability skills to then enter employment at a fair wage. This should be the wage provided for 22-year-olds - 4.20 per hour.
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