Junior rates are a major problem, Junior rates encourage child labor, corporate greed, and age discrimination, The fact I get payed 40% of what an 18 year old would get is absurd, the difference between me and that 18 year old? I was born 3 years after them, I have expenses just like them, my mum cant work due to her health, yet because she has a investment property, she technically has income, meaning she isnt eligible for centrelink.

Junior rates fuel greed.
Who would you rather get the money? A 14 year old saving up for their first car, or joseph chiczewski saving up for his next yacht.

Junior rates cause homelesseness.
Ever wondered where the money goes? It goes to the rich, think about it this way, a overnight public holiday shift would consist only of adults earning public holiday rates, the fact that they can afford paying adults double clearly means that they can afford way more than what they are paying us, this money goes to the licensees, the people who sit around and quite literally do nothing, they earn money from us, what do we get in return? $13.90 an hour. Children can be homeless, the fact that a child who is homeless has to work 60% more shifts to be able to afford what a adult can is absurd, a child who cant afford medicine/food will starve on those rates.