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Prohibited Work

Explore Prohibited Work in Minors (See also RA 7610, as amended by RA 9231; DC 2, s. 2017, as amended by DC 2, s. 2018; DO 149, s. 2016, as amended by DO…

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  1. Does the prohibition against hazardous child work protect persons aged sixteen or seventeen?
  2. Which is expressly identified among prohibited worst forms of child labor?
  3. Does hazardous child work depend only on the employer’s chosen job title?
  4. A seventeen-year-old is assigned to handle dangerous power-driven cutting machinery. The employer says persons above fi…
  5. A farm assigns a sixteen-year-old to spray harmful pesticides and carry heavy loads under hazardous conditions. The own…
  6. A fireworks maker offers a seventeen-year-old a high wage to manufacture and handle explosive pyrotechnic products. The…
  7. A family enterprise invokes a lawful under-fifteen exception for its fourteen-year-old child but then assigns undergrou…
  8. Explain why a fifteen-to-seventeen-year-old may be employable yet prohibited from hazardous work.
  9. Discuss the relevance of DO149-A to hazardous agricultural child work.
  10. Why can neither an apprentice label nor parental consent authorize an expressly prohibited child-hazard assignment?
  11. Does Section 12-D include debt bondage among prohibited worst forms of child labor?
  12. Does the worst-forms prohibition expressly include use of a child in the production or trafficking of dangerous drugs?