Invoice 19, which units the minimal working age in Quebec at 14, is scary widespread dissatisfaction amongst entrepreneurs within the Mauricie area, who’re already struggling to search out staff and at the moment are having to put off their youthful staff.
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Campsites corresponding to Tenting Parc de la Péninsule in Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan will probably be pressured to put off a number of staff as soon as the brand new legislation comes into pressure. Most of those staff are employed guarding the arcades, the miniature golf course or as lifeguards.
We see the identical at Aquaparc H2O in Trois-Rivières, the place a dozen lifeguards and upkeep staff underneath 14 are employed.
A number of staff are inevitably laid off.
“I would like another person, in any other case we should shut the points of interest,” mentioned Sophie Bellemare, managing director of Aquaparc H2O.
Whereas recruiting workers is at present troublesome, changing a dozen staff is prone to be a problem.
An exception is that kids underneath the age of 14 are allowed to work in a household enterprise, however provided that it has fewer than ten staff. The daddy and proprietor of the 1200 Degrés firm in Trois-Rivières, François Proulx, will due to this fact have to stop his 13-year-old son from persevering with to work within the firm.
“He’s very disenchanted. He appeared ahead to coming to work. There may be completely no proof that staff’ security is best at work in an organization with fewer than ten staff or on a farm. We all know farms could be harmful,” Mr Proulx mentioned, including that as a substitute the federal government ought to guarantee younger individuals are working in secure locations.
The identical applies to one of many companions of Enseignes FX Boisvert, who can now not supply his 13-year-old son a job after the legislation got here into pressure. “It’s a bit flat to inform them that they’ll now not be capable to assist and get a bit wage per week,” defined Stéphane Bellerive.
Mr Proulx has obtained quite a few messages in latest days from household enterprise homeowners and fogeys who’re involved and offended and are demanding explanations from Labor Secretary Jean Boulet.