Keeping down the cost of junk mail
Yesterday Sue Bradford drew attention in the house to the recently released Caritas report ‘Delivering the Goods’. It is an in depth survey of the working conditions of child newspaper and junk mail delivery workers.
One of the things the survey finds is that the health and safety advice that most companies give to their contracted child workers is to ask their parents for advice.
Oddly New Zealand Post, whose workers do a similar job with similar health and safety risks, does not offer the same helpful health and safety advice to it workers. After all you don’t see that many posties standing outside a house with a pit-bull terrier, and on a cell phone to their mum.
I guess children can expect a different quality of health and safety advice if their pay rate is somewhere between $1.67 and $6.25 per hour.
