Labor has backed superannuation payments for Australia's youngest workers, regardless of the number of hours they work.
The party says it will "ensure that all workers, including those under 18 and regardless of how they are engaged, can accumulate superannuation on every dollar earned".
The amendment to the party's official platform on superannuation was adopted by delegates at the ALP national conference in Adelaide on Thursday.
Under current superannuation laws, workers under 18 are only entitled to super guarantee contributions if they work more than 30 hours in a week.
Speaking in support of the motion, SA Senator Charlotte Walker said that as someone whose day job was to bring the voices of young people to parliament, "I am very much looking forward to these reforms".
The decision is a win for the Greens, who have been campaigning with unions and the Super Members Council to extend compulsory superannuation to all workers under 18.
The Greens last month failed to stop Treasurer Jim Chalmers from using ministerial discretionary powers to exclude companies from paying super to minors.
As a result, Greens Senator Barbara Pocock said the amendment approved on Thursday was "just words - not actions - from a stage-managed national conference".
"Labor is trying to mislead the Australian public into thinking they are still the party of unions and workers," she said.
"Let's not forget that just three weeks ago, Labor ganged up with the anti-worker Liberal Party to vote against the Greens' efforts to get under 18 year-old workers paid superannuation."
"This is a deliberate decision by the minister to deny young people their super and use it to increase profits for companies like Coles and Woolies."
She has said the "deliberate exclusion" robbed 515,000 young workers an estimated $405 million in super contributions in 2025/26 alone.
Analysis by Rest superannuation had shown that a typical 15-year-old super member could benefit from an estimated $3400 extra in super by their 18th birthday, and $18,100 by retirement, in today's dollars, if the rule was changed.
