My teenage daughter wants to work at a local café but they're offering her below minimum wage as a 'trial period' and my husband thinks she should take it for the experience while I think we're teaching her to accept exploitation.
More people experience this than they realize.
A teenager's first job offer has become a proxy battle over what values to instill about work, fairness, and economic reality.
“Where Are You with Labor economics — how wages are set?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.