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Trenton NJ, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection has begun accepting applications for more than 800 peak-season part-time jobs throughout state parks, forests and historic sites, Commissioner Shawn M. LaTourette announced .
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Ridgewood NJ, the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (NJDOL) today announced a new online application for teenagers who need working papers – at MyWorkingPapers.nj.gov – launching June 1.
Continue reading NJ Teens to Get Working Papers Online Starting June 1st
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Ridgewood NJ, thanks to a new law, the working papers process will be online and streamlined. Rather than going through local schools, younger workers will simply visit this site and be walked through a few easy steps.
Continue reading The Way Teens Obtain Working Papers in New Jersey will Change on June 1, 2023!
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Ridgewood NJ, the Ridgewood Department of Parks and Recreation is currently accepting applications for seasonal part-time positions with the Summer Day Camp as well as Graydon Pool.
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Trenton NJ, a bill that makes permanent new working hours for minors and greatly improves the process for teens to obtain working papers is scheduled for a vote in the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee today.
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Ridgewood NJ, Most Americans believe it’s important for young people to work during the summer, and don’t think it will be very difficult for teens to find jobs in the current economy.
Continue reading An Overwhelming Majority of Americans Say Summer Jobs Important for Teens
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May 21,2018
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Ridgewood NJ, Far fewer teens are working now than they did 20 years ago, according to the U.S. Labor Department, which reported almost 60% of teens had a job in 1979 compared to 34% in 2015.
Experts say that paid work has value for a number of reasons — and that teens (even those who plan to go to college) who don’t do it may be at a disadvantage. “It’s critical for teenagers to work, to begin to understand the working world, the value of a paycheck” says Gene Natali, co-author of “The Missing Semester” and a senior vice president at Pittsburgh investment firm C.S. McKee. “Choosing not to work a paid job has consequences.”
Applications are being sought for the many summer positions available with the Parks and Recreation Department including Day Camp Administrators and Counselors, Graydon Pool Lifeguards, Security Attendants, and Badge Sale Attendants. Concession Attendant applications will be shared with the Water’s Edge vendor.
NOTE: Day Camp staff attendance is mandatory for the full six week program, June 25 to August 3, 2018 as well as pre-camp trainings.
Applicants should be at least 16 years of age. All will be considered for experience, interests, and accomplishments.
All hires require an approved Ridgewood Police Department criminal background check.
Mail completed applications to The Stable, 259 N. Maple Avenue, Ridgewood, NJ 07450. Accompanying resumes are suggested.
By Eric Strauss, August 18, 2017 at 1:25 PM
New Jersey’s private-sector employment grew by nearly 10,000 jobs in July, following a revised gain of nearly 15,000 jobs in June, the state Department of Labor and Workforce Development reported recently.
The report, based on data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, found that total nonfarm wage and salary employment rose by 9,800 positions in July, while the June number was revised to 14,900 jobs gained, up from 10,600 estimated earlier.
“The economy and the recovery seem to have gained a bit of momentum after years of frustratingly slow growth,” Mark Vitner, senior economist at Wells Fargo, told NJBIZ. “It does seem that things have picked up, and we’ve had two months of strong job gains.”
Of those July jobs, 7,300 were added in the private sector, with the rest added in public positions. The state said private-sector employment is at a historic high.
https://www.njbiz.com/article/20170818/NJBIZ01/170819818/nj-continues-summer-growth-in-employment
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May 31,2016
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Ridgewood NJ, Every year, we hear from Parks & Rec that lifeguards trained to work at a sand-bottom facility are in short supply. Lifeguarding at Graydon requires a higher level of skill than is required at a concrete pool.
This summer, young people ages 15 and up may take the requisite course right at Graydon and become eligible to apply to be a lifeguard there. (Recertification for current lifeguards is offered separately.)This is an excellent and unusual opportunity.
All classes will be held at Graydon in July. A prerequisite fitness and endurance test will be held on Thursday, June 30. Details are in the yellow section of the flier reproduced below.
Please pass this information to any young person you know who may be interested. Ridgewood residency is NOT required. The prerequisite test is on June 30.
Questions? Contact the Village Department of Parks & Recreation at 201-670-5560 (8:30am–4:30pmMonday–Friday).
Click anywhere in the image below for the printable PDF, posted at ridgewoodnj.net/graydon.
Teens Need Summer Jobs. Too Bad There Aren’t Many.
Stephen Moore / @StephenMoore / July 06, 2014
School’s out, and I’m terrified my two teenage boys won’t get a job this summer and will sit around watching TV, playing computer games or just eating me out of house and home. Idle hands really are the devil’s workshop, and at this stage, I’d pay an employer to get the kids out of the house and teach them some practical lifetime skills.
My first job was working at a warehouse for $2.35 an hour in suburban Chicago. The first job for me – and many others – was one of the most important.
But in many areas this summer, kids won’t have an easy time finding work. The teen unemployment rate is already above 20 percent in many areas. Meanwhile, Seattle just became the latest city to raise its minimum wage – to double the minimum and all the way to $15 an hour. If you aren’t worth $15 an hour, it is now illegal for you to hold a job in Seattle. The White House wants to raise the federal minimum from $7.25 to $10.10 over the next several years.
Many California cities and at least a dozen states are talking about creating a similar “super” minimum wage above the federal minimum. The idea is to reduce income inequality and raise wages for workers at the bottom of the scale.
The debate rages about whether this will actually raise wages or simply make it nearly impossible for the young to find paid work. Some liberals argue that raising the minimum wage will increase employment. In other words, making workers more expensive will evidently make employers hire more of them.
But we don’t have to debate what the effect of a higher minimum wage will have on young people. We already know from recent history. In 2007 and 2008 the minimum wage was raised three times. This wage hike requirement came at the worst possible time – just as the U.S. economy was entering recession. The effects on teen employment were immediate and devastating. The national teen unemployment rate nearly doubled. At one point during the recession in 2009, the black teen unemployment rate was nearly 50 percent, which is the rate in many third-world nations.
Also, teenage work participation plummeted to below 40 percent. In other words, as jobs became scarcer, teens either couldn’t get a job or just gave up even trying to find one. The lasting impact of this high teenage unemployment and low entry into the workforce is sharply negative. Wages later in life are higher when the young work earlier.
Skeptics say the teen unemployment rate soared only because the economy was in recession and jobs were hard to come by for every age group. True, but the teen rate rose fastest. They were the first tossed out of jobs. And as labor economist Richard Vedder of Ohio University has shown, when jobs are scarce, the solution to reducing unemployment is to allow employers to offer lower wages temporarily, not to raise the wage requirement, which only exacerbates the jobless problem.
We know about half the workers earning the minimum wage are below the age of 25. Very few minimum wage workers are the head of a household or the primary earner. Most minimum wage workers receive a pay raise within six months on the job. This is a training wage. Only about one in 20 workers is paid the minimum wage and the median wage is three times the minimum, or $24 an hour.
I love my sons (sometimes I don’t like them, though), but few employers would pay them $10 or $12 or $15 an hour. They just don’t have the skills to merit that kind of wage. Wouldn’t it be better for kids to have a job that pays $5 or $6 an hour than no job at all?
The victims of a higher minimum wage are the young and the unskilled. They are left on the jobs sideline when the wage requirement rises. This is why my own work finds that states with high minimum wages actually have MORE income inequality than those with lower minimum wages.
With about 17 million Americans out of work, not looking for work or just unable to find a full-time job, now is the worst time to raise the minimum wage. But if we do, at least let us have a federal teen minimum wage of $5 an hour. Call it a Training Wage. Let kids learn how to become productive and learn vital job skills at a young age.
This on-the-job training will pay off double or triple in the future as these teens turn into adults. It will also keep kids out of trouble this summer. There is something much worse than a minimum wage job and that is laziness, which doesn’t pay a penny.
Job Fair Today at the Ridgewood YWCA
