Practice question
A fireworks maker offers a seventeen-year-old a high wage to manufacture and handle explosive pyrotechnic products. The parent consents and the employer promises to classify the child as an apprentice rather than a worker. Which is best?
- High wages erase every child-labor restriction
- Manufacture or handling of explosives and pyrotechnic products remains prohibited child work; the label and consent do not waive the rule
- An apprentice can never be exposed to a legal hazard
- Only unpaid pyrotechnic work is prohibited
- Every parent may authorize any activity below eighteen
Legal references
- RA7610, Section 12-D(4)(i), inserted by RA9231: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2003/ra_9231_2003.html
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