If companies are given financial incentives to take on inexperienced school leavers, in time they will be the only ones who can find work, apart from professionals.
‘If we gave employers £1,500 as a cash subsidy to take on a 16-year-old, they might take on a 16-year-old with lack of work experience and sometimes poor qualifications rather than a migrant worker or a mature worker who has got those skills.
Denying opportunities to "mature workers" is age discrimination.
