Summertime… and workplace violence confronts teen workers
Twenty-three million young people are expected to seek summer jobs this year, many entering the workplace for the first time. There is often little or no workplace violence training for young workers on the job, despite life-threatening risks.
Equally troubling is that more than 200,000 young workers annually are victims of sexual assault on the job, according to data from the Shuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University.
In a teleconference June 23, teen safety peer educators discussed the toll of inadequate training and safety precautions by highlighting several recent teen worker homicides including: