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Practice question: Minimum Employable Age; Exceptions

Multiple Choice Medium

Practice question

A parent proposes to employ a fourteen-year-old directly in an undertaking employing only family members but in dangerous work that endangers the child’s health. Does the family arrangement alone establish a valid exception?
  1. No; the exception also requires protection of life, safety, health, morals, development and education
  2. Yes, family ownership waives every safeguard
  3. Yes, any parental signature permits hazardous work
  4. Yes, if the child is unpaid
  5. Yes, because danger matters only after eighteen

Legal references

  • RA7610, Sections 12 and 12-D, as amended by RA9231: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2003/ra_9231_2003.html

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