Practice question
A family enterprise invokes a lawful under-fifteen exception for its fourteen-year-old child but then assigns underground work with hazardous exposure. It argues that direct parental responsibility overrides the prohibition on worst forms of child labor. Which is correct?
- Every family enterprise may assign underground work
- The exception makes all child-protection rules optional
- The separate hazard prohibition remains; the family exception cannot authorize the stipulated dangerous work
- The child becomes eighteen when a parent signs
- Hazards matter only if an accident has already occurred
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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