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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Child Labour Act amended, children under 14 can work during holidays

Child Labour Act amended, children under 14 can work during holidays

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published Published on May 13, 2015   modified Modified on May 13, 2015
-Tehelka

The amendments also make it clear that children between 14 and 18 years will also not be allowed to work in hazardous industries.

The Union Cabinet on 13 May cleared a change in the Child Labour Act which said children below 14 years of age can work in non-hazardous industries and too during holidays or after school hours.

The changes in labour law provide for stricter punishment for employers for violation. While there is minimal penalty provision for parents for the first offence, employers would be punished even for the first violation.

In case of first offence, penalty for employers has risen up to Rs 50,000 from Rs 20,000. In case of a second offence of employing any child, the minimum imprisonment would be one year which may extend to three years.

The government will move official amendments to Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 in Parliament.

While child rights activists were opposed to the dilution saying it will promote child labour, those involved in business maintained children need to be trained in traditional arts at an early stage or they will not be able to acquire the required skills like weaving and stitching.

The age of prohibition of employment has been linked to age under Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009.

The original child labour law banned employment of children below 14 in only 18 hazardous industries, while the amendments make it clear that children between 14 and 18 years will not be allowed to work in hazardous industries.

Exceptions have, however, been made in case of works in which the child helps the family or family enterprises. This exemption is also conditional and stipulates taking up prescribed safety measures.

The condition is that such enterprises shouldn’t be involved any hazardous occupation. Another condition is that they should work after school hours or during vacations.


Tehelka, 13 May, 2015, http://www.tehelka.com/child-labour-act-amended-children-under-14-can-work-during-holidays/?singlepage=1


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