Your opinions please…
May 16th, 2012Southern Cross Baking Group is an association run by its members for the benefit of members. Today we would like to ask for your opinion:
Competition is a big part of SCBG’s plan to develop skills and knowledge and share them with the community. To help develop teams for international competition, SCBG is getting involved with domestic baking competitions (e.g. L.A. Judge and BakeSkills). Right now, both these competitions have an age limit of 23 years old.
Here is a real example of the issue from a SCBG member and business owner:
“I have been asked by a member and current apprentice of ours who is 25yo to please request on his behalf that this be looked at and change. I would like to put forward that SCBG send a request to organisers of both comps and request that the age limit be removed. In the real world apprentices are not defined by age. In fact if I refused to employ one for reasons of age I would be breaking the law.”
The SCBG committee believes that these competitions are suffering from a lack of applicants and the age restriction is not helping. In our experience, more apprentices these days are older than 23 before they begin their apprenticeship and would never be able to participate in these competitions.
Before we petition the organisers further, we would like to know what you, our members, this of this idea.
Please leave your comments below to the question:
Should apprentices of any age be allowed to compete in competitions like BakeSkills and L.A. Judge?
Updating...
We’ve just uploaded some photos from the 2012 Coupe du Monde del la Boulangerie.
