Job deficit for minors who wish to work during summer holidays

The teenagers, who wish to work during the summer holidays, even if they are not of age yet, a fact which would give them equal employment rights as the grown-ups, are experiencing with a quasi-total lack of job offers and information on the job market. An investigation by the Info-Prim Neo reporter has revealed only one economic agent in Chisinau who made their job offers for minors public. According to Mariana Scutelnic, a Morocco leather goods factory has made public by Thursday, June 14, for the City Employment Services Agency 10 vacancies for item assemblers with no professional training and of over 17 years of age. Scutelnic points out that, generally speaking, the economic agents are not interested in hiring temporary student staff, even if they are dealing with a strong shortage of permanent workers. One of the reasons, according to her, would be the fact that the minors cannot be penalised for various work discipline disobediences and that their efficiency is not high enough. At the same time, according to the cited source, students are more demanded by employers than schoolchildren, and the majority of the job offers are for male applicants. With some luck, teenagers can find a job in the public food and trade sectors. Some companies, like private security agencies, are hiring guards who should be for all that of about 20 years of age. When questioned by Info-Prim Neo, representatives of Moldova’s Employers National Confederation have stated that the minors hiring issue hasn’t been brought to the Confederation’s attention, avoiding to comment on that. The General Division for Education, Youth and Sports in Chisinau avail of no information on the pupils hiring issue either, because, says Valentina Cujba, General Manager Assistant of the Division, enterprises are not looking forward to launching job offers for minors, not even those in the agriculture sector, where the maximum temporary work volume coincides with the pupils’ summer holidays.