Policymakers have promoted high-school work-experience programs as one way of addressing areas of labour shortage. For example, the Ministry of Health and Wellness in Alberta funds an internship program designed to encourage high-school students to consider careers in health care. This paper...

This paper outlines the issues surrounding a recent move by the Government of Alberta, Canada to lower the accepted working age to 12 years old. The paper places this decision within the wider context of changes i n labour standards in North America and internationally. The lowering of the...