ASSIGNMENT OF SOCIAL SECURITY AND WELFARE

TOPIC:EMPLOYMENT OF YOUNG CHILDREN

SUBMITTED TO: SUBMITTED BY: MEGHA MEHTA NISHTHASHARMA REG.NO.3020070021

1.GENESIS

The Children and Young Persons Act 1933 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It consolidated all existing child protection legislation for England and Wales into one act. Child labour refers to the employment of children at regular and sustained labour. This practice is considered exploitative by many international organizations and is illegal in many countries. Child labour was employed to varying extents through most of history, but entered public dispute with the advent of universal schooling, with changes in working conditions during the industrial revolution, and with the emergence of the concepts of workers' and children's rights. The 1933 act raised the minimum age for execution to 18, raised the age of criminal responsibility from 7 to 8, included guidelines on the employment of school-age children, set a minimum working age of 14 and made it illegal for children to buy cigarettes and other tobacco products.

HISTORY
The act was passed a year after the Children and Young Persons Act 1932 broadened the powers of juvenile courts and introduced supervision orders for children at risk. Some sections of the act concerning the employment of children are still in force today.S39. and 49 of the Act remains in everyday use to in order to protect the identity of juvenile defendants appearing in Courts in England and Wales.

2.CURRENT REGULATION BY THE GOVERNMENTProtection of Young Persons (Employment) Act, 1996:3.(1) Subject to this section and section 9 , an employer shall not employ a child to do work.

(2) The Minister may, by licence, authorise in individual cases, the employment of a child in cultural, artistic, sports or advertising activities which are not likely to be harmful to the safety, health or development of the child and which are not likely to interfere with the child's attendance at school, vocational guidance or training programmes or capacity to benefit from the instruction received. (3) The Minister may, by regulations, authorise the employment of children over the age of 13 years in cultural, artistic, sports or advertising activities which are not harmful to the safety, health or development of children and which are not likely to interfere with their attendance at school, vocational guidance or training programmes or capacity to benefit from the instruction received. (4) An employer may employ a child who is over the age of 14 years to do light work during any period outside the school term. Provided that (a) the hours of work do not exceed 7 hours in any day or 35 hours in any week, (b) the work is not harmful to the safety, health and development of the child, (c) during the period of the summer holidays, the child does not do any work for a period of at least 21 days. (5) An employer may employ a child who is over the age of 15 years to do light work during school term time, provided that the hours of work do not exceed 8 hours in any week. (6) Subject to subsection (7), an employer may employ a child who is over the age of 14 years and who is a full-time student at an institute of secondary education pursuant to any arrangements made or approved of by the Minister for Education as part of a programme of work experience oreducational programme: Provided that the hours of work do not exceed 8 hours in any day or 40

hours in any week: (7) The Minister may, after consultation with the Minister for Education and such other interested parties as the Minister sees fit, by regulations, make exemptions from subsection (6) in relation to the hours of work of children participating in a work experience or training programme approved by the Minister for Education under subsection (6). (8) An employer may employ a child over the age of 15 years to participate in a training or work experience programme pursuant to arrangements made or approved of by the Minister or FS the Employment and Training Authority, provided that the hours of work do not exceed 8 hours in any day or 40 hours in any week. (9) Whenever the Minister grants a licence under subsection (2) or makes regulations under subsection (3) or (7), the Minister may attach to such licence or provide in such regulations such conditions as the Minister sees fit. (10) An employer may retain in his or her employment any child of 15 years of age who was in his or her employment immediately before the commencement of this section:Provided that the hours of work do not exceed 7 hours in any day or 35 hours in any week. (11) An employer who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence.

The Factories Act, 1948 (Act No. 63 of 1948), as amended by the Factories (Amendment) Act, 1987 (Act 20 of 1987)
Section 67. Prohibition of employment of young children. No child who has not completed his fourteenth year shall be required or allowed to work in any factory. Section 68. Non-adult workers to carry tokens. A child who has completed his fourteenth year or an adolescent shall not be required or allowed to work in any factory, unless -

(a) a certificate of fitness granted with reference to him under section 69, is in the custody of manager of the factory, and (b) such child or adolescent carries while he is at work, a token giving a reference to such certificate. Section 69. Certificate of fitness. A certifying surgeon shall, on the application of any young person or his parent or guardian accompanied by a document signed by the manager of a factory that such person will be employed therein if certified to be fit for work in a factory, or on the application of the manager of the factory, in which any young person wishes to work, examine such person and ascertain his fitness for work in a factory. (2 The certifying surgeon, after examination, may grant to such young person, in the prescribed form, or may renewa) certificate of fitness to work in a factory as a child, if he is satisfied that he young person has completed his fourteenth year, that he has attained the prescribed physical standards and that he is fit for such work; (b) a certificate of fitness to work in a factory as an adult, if he is satisfied that t he young person has completed his fifteenth year and is fit for a full day's work in a factory: Provided that unless the certifying surgeon has personal knowledge of the place where the young person proposes to work and of the manufacturing process in which he will be employed, he shall not grant or renew a certificate under this sub-section until he has examined such place. (3) A certificate of fitness granted or renewed under sub-section (2)(a) shall be valid only for a period of twelve months from the date thereof: (b) may be made subject to conditions in regard to the nature of the work in which the young person may be employed, or requiring reexamination of the young person before the expiry of the period of twelve months.

(4) A certifying surgeon shall revoke any certificate granted or renewed under sub-section (2) if in his opinion the holder of it is no longer fit to work in the capacity stated therein in a factory. (5) Where a certifying surgeon refuses to grant or renew a certificate or a certificate of the kind requested or revokes a certificate, he shall, if so requested by any person who could have applied for the certificate or the renewal thereof, state his reasons in writing for so doing. (6) Where a certificate under this section with reference to any young person is granted or renewed subject to such conditions as are referred to in clause (b) of sub-section (3), the young person shall not be required or allowed to work in any factory except in accordance with those conditions. (7) Any fee payable for a certificate under this section shall be paid by the occupier and shall not be recoverable from the young person, his parents or guardian. Section 70. Effect of certificate of fitness granted to adolescent. (1) An adolescent, who has been granted certificate of fitness to work in a factory as an adult under clause (b) of sub-section (2) of section 69, and who while at work in a factory carries a taken giving reference to the certificate, shall be deemed to be an adult for all the purposes of Chapters VI and VIII; (1A) No female adolescent or a male adolescent who has not attained the age of seventeen years but who has been granted a certificate of fitness to work in a factory as an adult, shall be required or allowed to work in any factory except between 6 A.M. and 7 P.M. Provided that the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, in respect of any factory or group or class or description of factories,(i) vary the limits laid down in this sub-section so, however, that no such section shall authorise the employment of any female, adolescent between 10 P.M. and 5 A.M. (ii) grant exemption from the provisions of this sub-section in case of

serious emergency where national interest is involved. (2) An adolescent who has not been granted a certificate of fitness to work in a factory as an adult under the aforesaid clause (b) shall, notwithstanding his age, be deemed to be a child for all the purposes of this Act. Section 71. Working hours for children. (1) No child shall be employed or permitted to work in any factory(a) for more than four and a half hours in any day; (b) during the night. Explanation. - For the purpose of this sub-section "night" shall mean a period of at least twelve consecutive hours which shall include the interval between 10 P.M. and 6 A.M. (2) The period of work of all children employed in a factory shall be limited to two shifts which shall not overlap or spreadover more than five hours each; and each child shall be employed in only one of the relays which shall not, except with the previous permission in writing of the Chief Inspector, be changed more frequently than once in a period of thirty days. (3) The provisions of section 52 shall apply also to child workers and no exemption from the provisions of that section may be granted in respect of any child. (4) No child shall be required or allowed to work in any factory on any day on which he has already been working in another factory. (5) No female child shall be required or allowed to work in any factory except between 8 A.M. and 7 P.M. Section 72. Notice of period of work for children. (1) There shall be displayed and correctly maintained in every factory in which children are employed, in accordance with the provisions of subsection (2) of section 108, a notice of periods of work for children, showing clear}y for every day the periods during which children may be required or allowed to work.

(2) The periods shown in the notice required by sub-section (1) shall be fixed beforehand in accordance with the method laid down for adult workers in section 61, and shall be such that children working for those periods would not be working in contravention of any of the provisions of section 71. (3) The provisions of sub-sections (8), (9) and (10) of section 61 shall apply also to the notice required by sub-section (1) of this section. Section 73. Register of child workers. (1) The manager of every factory in which children are employed shall maintain a register of child workers, to be available to the Inspector at all times during working hours or when any work is being carried on in a factory, showing (a) the name of each child worker in the factory, (b) the nature of his work, (c) the group, if any, in which he is included, (d) where his group works on shifts, the relay to which he is allotted, and (e) the number of his certificate of fitness granted under section 69. (1A) No child worker shall be required or allowed to work in any factory unless his name and other particulars have been entered in the register of (2) The State Government may prescribe the form of the register of child workers, the manner in which it shall be maintained and the period for which it shall be preserved. Section 74. Hours of work to correspond with notice under section 72 and register under section 73. No child shall be employed in any factory otherwise than in accordance with the notice of periods of work for children displayed in the factory and the entries made beforehand against his name in the register of child workers of the factory.

Section 75. Power to require medical examination. Where an Inspector is of opinion (a) that any person working in factory without a certificate of fitness is a young person, or (b) that a young person working in a factory with a certificate of fitness is no longer fit to work in the capacity stated therein, he may serve on the manager of the factory a notice requiring that such person or young person, as the case may be shall be, examined by a certifying surgeon, and such person or young person shall not, if the Inspector so directs, be employed, or permitted to work, in any factory until he has been so examined and has been granted a certificate of fitness or a fresh certificate of fitness, as the case may be, under section 69, or has been certified by the certifying surgeon examining him not to be a young person. Section 76. Power to make rules. The State Government may make rules(a) prescribing the forms of certificate of fitness to be granted under section 69, providing for the grant of duplicates in the event of loss of the original certificate, and fixing the fees which may be charged for such certificates and renewals thereof and such duplicates; (b) prescribing the physical standards to be attained by children and adolescents working in factories; (c) regulating the procedure of certifying surgeons under this Chapter; (d) specifying other duties which certifying surgeons may be required to perform in connection with the employment of young persons in factories, and fixing the fees which may be charged for such duties and the persons by whom they shall be payable. Section 77. Certain other provisions of law not barred. The provisions of this Chapter shall be in addition to, and not in derogation

of, the provisions of the Employment of Children Act, 1938 (XXVt of 1938).

3.TRENDS IN THE ORGANISATIONIt has been seen some organisations or industries working on the improvement and eradication of employment of young children, bt there are many industries that have been lacking in doing so and not abiding the rules given in the act.Organisations for employment of young children following certain rules also such as:Children under 13 Under the Children and Young Persons Act no child under 13 may be employed. There is an exception for certain types of performance, such as acting, where a part can only be undertaken by a child of that age. Working hours are strictly controlled and they must have a permit issued by the Local Authority, normally the education welfare service. Workers under 16 Strict rules govern the employment of workers who are at least 13 but under 16 even those just doing a paper round. They will also require a permit from your Local Authority. Nobody under 16 may be employed in manufacturing or any dangerous activity. Workers under 18 Workers who are at least 16 but under 18 must not work more than eight hours a day or 40 hours a week. They must have: a break of 30 minutes every 4.5 hours; a rest period of 12 hours between each working day; and two days off a week.

They are entitled, except for Apprentices, to the National Minimum Wage level for their age group. Young workers aged 18 and over Depending on the type of employment, you may still have special responsibilities to young workers, even when they are over the age of 18. They are entitled, except for Apprentices under 19, to the National Minimum Wage level for their age group.

4.Critical appraisalGovernment has made incredible laws for the protection of employment.There are many ngo's who has been focusing on employment of young children or child labour such as : "SAVE THE CHILDREN-Your support can bring back smiles". Save the Children is the worlds leading independent organization for children that works to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. Our founder Eglantyne Jebb drafted the 'Declaration of the Rights of the Child' in 1922 which was adopted by the League of Nations in 1924. Save the Children works to bring about a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation. There Approach: Save the Children actively works with the communities, the State governments and the National government to bring lasting changes for the most marginalised children by: 1. Providing them with immunisation and nutrition. 2. Ensuring that they have a chance to join formal school. 3. Exposing and preventing exploitative child labour practices and running prevention programs.

4. During emergencies, we provide emergency supplies as well ensure that children are protected in safe places as well continue schooling.

Can INDIA save its working children????

Dinnertime finds the famous Haldiram's restaurant in south Delhi noisy and crowded. The larger tables are taken up by affluent extended families, the very picture of upwardly mobile urban India well-dressed grandparents, several stylish young couples, and a multitude of happy and excited children. On smaller tables nearby are the ayahs (child-minders), looking heartbreakingly out of place, not eating and waiting to be called on to deal with the kids when they get out of hand. More often than not, the ayahs are themselves children, barely in their pre-teens. Each makes less money each month than the family whose children she cares for will spend on dinner that night. She will never go to school, never acquire any skills that could get her any other form of employment when she's older, and will spend her life eating leftovers and wearing hand-me-downs. Employment of children in such occupations is not only heartbreaking; it is also illegal. Last October, the government extended the prohibition on children under 14 working in "hazardous" professions to include the domestic and hospitality sectors. This followed a sustained campaign by rights groups in the wake of a series of reports on children abused in these sectors. Despite the legal change, the government-affiliated V.V. Giri Labour Institute in Noida estimates there are 12.5 million children younger than 14 working in India. (UNICEF puts the real figure at somewhere between 75 and 90 million.) The 6,669 violations and 872 prosecutions for employing children in the domestic and hospitality sectors reported by the Labor Ministry over the past year, then, are a drop in the ocean. When the government first moved to ban child labor in these two sectors, employers and some children's rights activists pointed out that millions of children worked in order to survive. If forced out of employment, who would feed them? Where were the schools and shelters to absorb them and offer them a brighter future? Some even conceded that at least some employers treated their child-workers better than their own indigent parents

could. "Given that it is a multi-dimensional problem, the ban has been a tiny but positive step forward," says Farida Lambay, founder-trustee of child rights NGO Pratham, and vice-principal of College of Social Work. "It has been successful at least in the big cities." Lambay cites a UNICEF initiative to get the hotel owners' association to agree to refrain from hiring children, and her own organization's campaign to get 4,000 housing societies to certify that no children were working in homes, as examples of success of the ban. "Overall, 19,000 children were rescued during the last year in Mumbai," she says, adding, "It is a great beginning." Other activists are less optimistic. "The entire thing has been a disaster," says Umesh Kumar Gupta from Bachpan Bachao Andolan, an NGO which has been at the forefront of the anti-child-labor movement. He cites the example of the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, one of the largest in terms of size. "The state government claims it found only 94 child laborers across the length and breadth of the state. When they are in such a state of denial, how will they ever remedy the problem?" He adds that the few children rescued would soon be employed again, because the poverty at the root of the problem has not been addressed. And the rescue homes at which others find themselves are often overcrowded and offer little by way of educational and vocational training opportunities. Ingrid Srinath, CEO of Child Rights says, "The police, after rescuing the children, often don't know where they come from. Sometimes their families don't want them back, and actually want the children to continue working because they need the income. The only solution for such children is either repatriation or putting them in a juvenile home, where they are treated like criminals and learn no skills except basket weaving!" She insists the ban was only a face-saving exercise by the government. "It was an attempt to avoid having to completely ban child labor, which will be difficult to implement," she says. "Implementing this limited ban is difficult enough." The most optimistic prognoses of India's economic growth story often rely on its huge "demographic dividend" 35% of its 1.1 billion people are younger than 15. However, with millions of children not going to school and picking up no marketable skills, this huge reservoir of young people could

well be a ticking time bomb of social unrest. Harjot Kaur, director at the Ministry of Labor and Employment, insists the government is acting to improve the situation, noting that it plans a survey to establish the number of working children in India, and plans to extend the National Child Labor Project (aimed at eliminating the practice) from 200 to 600 districts. Still, while activists concede that the challenge is daunting, they question whether the government is addressing it with sufficient vigor. The private sector, meanwhile, has begun to grasp the significance of educating India's impoverished youth. India 's IT giant Infosys, for example, has already set up 10,000 libraries in rural areas across the country, while Wipro is adopting 7,500 schools in the southern state of Karnataka. Activists are hoping that the combination of political action and far-sighted business investment can help ensure that a booming India has better prospects to offer the adolescent ayahs in Haldiram's than the scraps they'll dine on tonight.