Labour law also known as employment law deals with the body of laws‚ administrative rulings and precedents which addresses the legal rights of and restrictions on working people and their organizations1. The direct function of labour law is that it deals with the rules governing employment relationship. Labour law functions through the role accorded by common law‚ legislation and is helped also by the extra legal sources such as the customs and collective bargaining. Labour law is divided in to two
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Child labour Introduction Throughout the world‚ especially in the less-developed countries‚ an immeasurable amount of children have been involved in what has been called child labour‚ and its prevalence has now sparked much worry. Child labour can be defined as any work that is harmful to a child’s health or interrupt a child’s education (International Labour Organisation‚ 2012). According to the International Labour Organisation (ILO)‚ there were approximately 153 million child labourers aged
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"An analysis of the development and changes in the use of child labour" Contents: 1. Introduction 3 2. What causes child labour 4 3. The effect on the economy .5-6 4. What needs to be done?....................................7 5. Conclusion .7-8 Introduction. The phrase "child labour" might seem straightforward and easily defined. However‚ both component words have uncertainties attached to them. When does
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Child Labour Child labor is work that harms children or keeps them from attending school. Around the world growing gaps between rich and poor in recent decades have forced millions of young children out of school and into work. The International Labor Organization estimates that 215 million children between the ages of 5 and 17 currently work under conditions that are considered illegal‚ hazardous‚ or extremely exploitative. Underage children
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Save the Children works to end exploitative Child labour. Many children all over the world do some kind of work. You might have an after-school job‚ or maybe you help out with chores around the house. This kind of work can be great: you build skills and earn extra cash. It’s not child labour. Only work that’s harmful to a child’s physical and mental development is considered to be child labour. One in seven children is exposed to this kind of labour‚ kept from school and the chance to improve the
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Child labour Considerable differences exist between the many kinds of work children do. Some are difficult and demanding‚ others are more hazardous and even morally reprehensible. Children carry out a very wide range of tasks and activities when they work. Not all work done by children should be classified as child labour that is to be targeted for elimination. Children’s or adolescents’ participation in work that does not affect their health and personal development or interfere with their
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improving conditions in the adult labor market‚ which result in a reduction of child labor. In the case of Hershey’s chocolate‚ the local government in Ghana implemented some advance and fund programmes that enhance living standard and ensure fair labour practices in cocoa-growing regions
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ages ranging from 5 to 14‚ are engaged in child labor. Many face life-threatening jobs‚ such as coal mining‚ metalwork‚ and other work that involve contact with pesticides‚ highly toxic chemicals‚ and sexually transmitted diseases. International Labour Organisation (ILO) states that‚ “the total number of young people in hazardous jobs [is] well over half of those known to be working -- the overwhelming majority of them being in Africa‚ Asia and Latin America.” Child labor practices are common around
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EVILS OF CHILD LABOUR INTRODUCTION: Childhood is the most innocent stage in a human life. It is that phase of life where a child is free from all the tensions‚ fun-loving‚ play and learns new things‚ and is the sweetheart of all the family members. But this is only one side of the story. The other side is full of tensions and burdens. Here‚ the innocent child is not the sweetheart of the family members‚ instead he is an earning machine working the entire day in order to satisfy the needs and wants
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order to satisfy the needs and wants of his/her family. This is what is called ’CHILD LABOUR’. There are various causes and effects of child labour. Eliminating child labour is one of the biggest challenges that the whole world is facing. Child labour includes working children who are below a certain minimum age. This practice is going on since long and is one of the worst forms of child exploitation. Child labour not only causes damage to a child’s physical and mental health but also keep him deprive
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