Practice question
A thirteen-year-old works only with family members directly under a parent’s responsibility, but the task exposes the child to serious danger and prevents attendance in the prescribed schooling. The parent invokes the family-work exception as an unlimited exemption. Which is best?
- Family work automatically removes every safeguard
- Only payment of wages matters
- The exception requires safety, development and educational safeguards; the stated facts do not satisfy them
- A parent may waive every protection orally
- Hazardous work becomes lawful if no outsider is employed
Legal references
- RA9231 Section2, amended RA7610 Section12: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2003/ra_9231_2003.html
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