The question (6 marks)
An Inspector visits a fireworks workshop and finds three young persons at work. R, who says he is twelve, is packing crackers; the occupier says R is only helping his uncle, who runs the workshop, and comes in after school. T, who appears to be fifteen, is mixing chemicals on the same premises. V, who is sixteen, is employed in the attached retail shop, where he had begun work at eight in the morning and was still at the counter at nine at night with a single short break, and the occupier produces no register and says the weekly holiday is fixed afresh each week. The occupier disputes the ages of all three. Advise the Inspector. (6 marks)
MU Module IV, problem on child and adolescent employment; pack ch. 04 §§6–9.
Plan your answer on paper before you look at the authorities — issue first, then the rule, then apply it to these facts.
It tests Unit 4 · Unorganised Workers' Social Security and Child Labour of Labour Law and Industrial Relations – II.
Authorities you will need
- Child and Adolescent Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act 1986, s. 3A and the Schedule
- Child and Adolescent Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act 1986, ss. 6, 7, 8 and 11
- Child and Adolescent Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act 1986, ss. 10 and 16(2)
- Child and Adolescent Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act 1986, s. 16(1) and (3)
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