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Speaker 1: Now the government's announced it's bringing forward policy to remove

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Speaker 1: the doll from eighteen to nineteen year olds. So from

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Speaker 1: November next year, parents earning over sixty five thousand dollars

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Speaker 1: will be expected to support their unemployed teams. Lea Gates

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Speaker 1: is the COO of the Auckland Business Chamber and their

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Speaker 1: Employment and Skills Manager and with us Now, Hi, La.

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Speaker 2: Hi, how are you doing.

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Speaker 1: I'm very well, thank you. I hear you're a whiz

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Speaker 1: at getting kids into work.

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Speaker 2: Oh takes a teen to do it, take a village modesty.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So what do you do? What jobs do you

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Speaker 1: fire them into?

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Speaker 2: So the Auckland Business Chamber has been running Cadetmax, which

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Speaker 2: is a youth employment program for nearly twenty years in

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Speaker 2: South Auckland and Central Auckland. Things that we're doing is

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Speaker 2: getting them ready for work and then leaning into that

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Speaker 2: business network to define opportunities like what big industries I

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Speaker 2: guess for young people in Auckland, warehousing, logistics, security, hospitality, administration,

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Speaker 2: customer service, whatever is going to spin their wheels and

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Speaker 2: get them out of bed in the morning.

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Speaker 1: I mean increasingly what's happening though, is with the cost

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Speaker 1: of living crisis. We've got older people who previously may

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Speaker 1: have retired and just happily lived off the pension unable

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Speaker 1: to do so still in these workplaces. Are these two

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Speaker 1: cohorts going to be competing with each other.

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Speaker 2: It's tough for young people in a tight labor market.

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Speaker 2: They're disproportionately affected, and as you say, they're competing against

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Speaker 2: more experienced workers. And so, yeah, undoubtedly a really tough

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Speaker 2: time in the last couple of I.

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Speaker 1: Mean some of these jobs, like I'm thinking, warehousing sounds

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Speaker 1: to me like a young person's game, not an old

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Speaker 1: person's game.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and no, yeah, it probably is. But a lot

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Speaker 2: of warehousing is thoughtless driving and your employers looking for

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Speaker 2: somebody experienced. So no, they're all tough to find now

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Speaker 2: a right.

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Speaker 1: So November next year, that's about I mean, that's slightly

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Speaker 1: more than a year away. Do you think the employment

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Speaker 1: market will be much improved.

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Speaker 2: I'd like to think so, and I certainly think an

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Speaker 2: Auckland with some of the employment opportunities that come up

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Speaker 2: with the International Convention Center, I care general labor market, Yes,

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Speaker 2: I think it will be easier, but I also know

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Speaker 2: that in this environment where it's tough for young people

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Speaker 2: to get into jobs, they go into education and that's

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Speaker 2: not a bad thing either.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Heyleah, thanks very much appreciated and good luck with

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Speaker 1: all of the work coming your way. Leagates, Auckland Business

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Speaker 1: Chamber COO and Employment and Skills Manager. For more from

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