Child Labour Law

Working in industrial laundries at age 14, laboring up to 35 hours a week on top of school -- some US states are relaxing the barriers to employing minors, despite rising cases of exploitation.

US lawmakers are supporting laws that would permit teenagers to work in riskier jobs, such selling alcohol in bars and restaurants at just 14 years old.

India is among the only 14 countries to have made significant advancement in efforts to eliminate the worst forms of child labour in 2017, an official US report said Saturday.

Supreme Court judge Ranjan Gogoi on Friday termed the children-friendly amendments recently made in laws as a "mirage" and said it was not a secret that the justice delivery system in India was "begging for complete overhaul".

Interns at a factory operated by Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., part of Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group, worked voluntarily and received benefits, though worked longer days than Chinese law permits, Apple said in a statement. The Financial Times reported earlier Tuesday that a group of 3,000 students from the Zhengzhou Urban Rail Transit School ...

The young woman laboured up the steps, past brightly decorated walls akin to a child's nursery, her daughter in her arms. Opening a hatch in the wall, she put her inside, turned around and walked away.

The prime reason for child labour is poverty and illiteracy and government has made stringent laws and rules to ensure that the country is freed from the scourge, Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya said today.

New Delhi: Notwithstanding the suffering of the common people, Kailash Satyarthi supports the government’s demonetisation move as it will help curb trafficking, but the Nobel laureate and child-rights crusader asserts that unless and until children become a political priority, India will continue to be dogged by the evils of child labour and chil...

Last month, parliament passed a new law against child labour that, on the surface, appears to be the perfect Independence Day gift for children of India's poor.

Those employing children below 14 years of age for any work, except where a child is helping his family post school hours or during vacation, can get up to two-year imprisonment and maximum fine of Rs 50,000, as per a new law which has got nod from President Pranab Mukherjee.

India will be able to ratify two International Labour Organization (ILO) conventions, 182 and 138, related to maternity benefits and abolition of child labour, as the country has completely banned it up to the age of 14 years, Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya said today.

When parliament passed a controversial new law that allows children under 14 to work in a family business, the opposition Congress made no noteworthy speech objecting to a policy criticized by activists and UNICEF and rigorously questioned by even BJP law-maker Varun Gandhi, who said parts of the law amount to "lunacy."

After almost six hours and many a robust voice of Opposition, the Child Labour (Prevention) Bill 2016 cleared the Lok Sabha with all its controversial provisions.

A UN body today has expressed serious concern over the changes made in India's child labour law which allows children to work in family enterprises and reduction of hazardous professions, saying it could lead to more children working in unregulated conditions.

19-year-old Amarlal who dreams of being a human rights lawyer on Wednesday was working as bonded labor at the age of four. He knows what a big difference education has made to his life. "I know what it is like to be stuck in that darkness. There is a world of a difference between that life and this," Amarlal said.

Working in industrial laundries at age 14, laboring up to 35 hours a week on top of school -- some US states are relaxing the barriers to employing minors, despite rising cases of exploitation.

US lawmakers are supporting laws that would permit teenagers to work in riskier jobs, such selling alcohol in bars and restaurants at just 14 years old.

India is among the only 14 countries to have made significant advancement in efforts to eliminate the worst forms of child labour in 2017, an official US report said Saturday.

Supreme Court judge Ranjan Gogoi on Friday termed the children-friendly amendments recently made in laws as a "mirage" and said it was not a secret that the justice delivery system in India was "begging for complete overhaul".

Interns at a factory operated by Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., part of Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group, worked voluntarily and received benefits, though worked longer days than Chinese law permits, Apple said in a statement. The Financial Times reported earlier Tuesday that a group of 3,000 students from the Zhengzhou Urban Rail Transit School ...

The young woman laboured up the steps, past brightly decorated walls akin to a child's nursery, her daughter in her arms. Opening a hatch in the wall, she put her inside, turned around and walked away.

The prime reason for child labour is poverty and illiteracy and government has made stringent laws and rules to ensure that the country is freed from the scourge, Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya said today.

New Delhi: Notwithstanding the suffering of the common people, Kailash Satyarthi supports the government’s demonetisation move as it will help curb trafficking, but the Nobel laureate and child-rights crusader asserts that unless and until children become a political priority, India will continue to be dogged by the evils of child labour and chil...

Last month, parliament passed a new law against child labour that, on the surface, appears to be the perfect Independence Day gift for children of India's poor.

Those employing children below 14 years of age for any work, except where a child is helping his family post school hours or during vacation, can get up to two-year imprisonment and maximum fine of Rs 50,000, as per a new law which has got nod from President Pranab Mukherjee.

India will be able to ratify two International Labour Organization (ILO) conventions, 182 and 138, related to maternity benefits and abolition of child labour, as the country has completely banned it up to the age of 14 years, Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya said today.

When parliament passed a controversial new law that allows children under 14 to work in a family business, the opposition Congress made no noteworthy speech objecting to a policy criticized by activists and UNICEF and rigorously questioned by even BJP law-maker Varun Gandhi, who said parts of the law amount to "lunacy."

After almost six hours and many a robust voice of Opposition, the Child Labour (Prevention) Bill 2016 cleared the Lok Sabha with all its controversial provisions.

A UN body today has expressed serious concern over the changes made in India's child labour law which allows children to work in family enterprises and reduction of hazardous professions, saying it could lead to more children working in unregulated conditions.

19-year-old Amarlal who dreams of being a human rights lawyer on Wednesday was working as bonded labor at the age of four. He knows what a big difference education has made to his life. "I know what it is like to be stuck in that darkness. There is a world of a difference between that life and this," Amarlal said.