Pretty much every restaurant in my area is on that list. There are places on that list that *I* worked at as a teen. My teen daughters have applied to a few of those places on the list without so much as a call back. They both have had jobs before, and have excellent references. I feel pretty disgusted. My older daughter finally got a job through a friend, but my younger daughter can't get a call back from anyone. She babysits instead, but would really like a steady job.
I'm sure my daughters and their friends are not the only young people who are having a tough time getting jobs. My ex and I started working quite young...he was 12, I was 14. It was how we got experience. Everyone our age worked. We worked our butts off for many years and moved up in each new job. As was mentioned in the comments of the article...if young people aren't getting the experience, and they have large gaps between jobs, they become 'red flagged' in the future and find it harder to find meaningful jobs as they get older. Changing our economy in this fashion will have long term consequences...none of them good.
I'd also like to point out that some of these businesses that cry about being unable to make it without TFW are full of shit. Usually, the owners of these fast food franchises, for instance, make quite a bit of money...they pay themselves well. They hire TFW to reduce their turnover costs so they can pay themselves even more. It has nothing to do with not being able to find workers - it has to do with the owner being greedy. As was pointed out in another thread, TFW often are forced into apartments owned by the same people who own franchises - so they make money on the apartments AND on the TFW....the TFW's apprehension to speak up enables the franchise owner to continue pulling that extra money in for themselves, from rent and from low turnover costs.
I can understand if a corporation truly cannot find someone with high end skills...they may want a TFW...but what about getting a permanent immigrant instead? How about training current employees? Whatever happened to helping employees climb the ladder? Long term, they are likely better off. Too bad most companies are so focused on the short term gains - to their own detriment.
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