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What is the minimum age for labour in factory? Can we employ a person of 17 years in our manufacturing unit which is not hazardous
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16 Answers

Dear Client,

Law prohibit the employment of children below 14 years of age in all occupations and those between 14 and 18 years of age in hazardous occupations.

Yogendra Singh Rajawat
Advocate, Jaipur
23079 Answers
31 Consultations

Hi,

Minimum age in these cases is 14 years and if your factory does not involve hazardous work, you may employ person of 17 yrs of age.

Ganesh Singh
Advocate, New Delhi
7169 Answers
16 Consultations

The minimum age for employment is 14 years. Employment of child under 14 years of age is strictly prohibited in any establishment. A violation of this rule can result in the imposition of fines and also imprisonment in certain States. 

 

Mohammed Mujeeb
Advocate, Hyderabad
19325 Answers
32 Consultations

Law permits adults above 18 years.

Rajaganapathy Ganesan
Advocate, Chennai
2300 Answers
8 Consultations

You can employ him in your manufacturing unit as the law is that children below 14 years cannot be employed in non-hazardous factories.

Siddharth Jain
Advocate, New Delhi
6617 Answers
102 Consultations

As per factories Act it is 14 years of age for any child working in factory under hazardous condition.  

Prashant Nayak
Advocate, Mumbai
34514 Answers
249 Consultations

Hello,

No you cannot.

Regards

 

Swarupananda Neogi
Advocate, Kolkata
2993 Answers
6 Consultations

minimum age is 14 years 

as your unit is non-hazardous you can employ a person above 14 years

Suneel Moudgil
Advocate, Panipat
2386 Answers
6 Consultations

Child below age of 14 years cannot be employed in any work, and child between 14 to 18 cannot be employed in hazardous employment.

Shubham Jhajharia
Advocate, Ahmedabad
25513 Answers
179 Consultations

Hello, 

 

Minimum Age for Employment. In accordance with the Constitution of India, no child below the age of fourteen years shall be employed to work in any factory or mine or engaged in any other hazardous employment. The minimum age for employment is 14 years.

 

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Anilesh Tewari
Advocate, New Delhi
18103 Answers
377 Consultations

Hiring children below the age of 14 years for any kind of work, other than in certain family-based work, is a cognizable offence and will attract a jail term of upto 2 years. Adolescents between the age of 14 – 18 years cannot be employed in any hazardous occupation.

Ajay Sethi
Advocate, Mumbai
99775 Answers
8145 Consultations

Yes, you can give employment to that worker in your factory.

 

The policy of the Government is to ban the employment of children below the age of 14 years in factories, mines and hazardous employments and to regulate the working condition of children in other industries.

The Government enacted the Child Labour (Prohibition & Regulation) Act, 1986 (the Child Labour Prohibition & Regulation Act), which prohibits the employment of children who have not completed their 14th year in 16 occupations and 65 processes like cinder picking, cleaning of ash pits, building operation, manufacturing or handling of pesticides and insecticides, and manufacturing of matches, explosives, fireworks, etc.

Ganesh Kadam
Advocate, Pune
13008 Answers
267 Consultations

 As Per act, “adolescent”. It defines children between 14 to 18 years as adolescents and bars their employment in any hazardous occupations.

Your case says NON Hazardous occupations, so no issues

G Suresh
Advocate, Chennai
394 Answers
5 Consultations

Minimum age of employment in India is 14 years if the environment and factory is engaged in a non hazardous activity.

Regards 

Rahul Mishra
Advocate, Lucknow
14114 Answers
65 Consultations

Legal Age for Working in India. Hiring children below the age of 14 years for any kind of work, other than in certain family-based work, is a cognizable offence and will attract a jail term of upto 2 years. Adolescents between the age of 14 – 18 years cannot be employed in any hazardous occupation.

As per the Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986, amended in 2016 ("CLPR Act"), a "Child" is defined as any person below the age of 15, and the CLPR Act prohibits employment of a Child in any employment including as a domestic help.

Children between age of 14 and 18 are defined as "Adolescent" and the law allows Adolescent to be employed except in the listed hazardous occupation and processes which include mining, inflammable substance and explosives related work and any other hazardous process as per the Factories Act, 1948.

T Kalaiselvan
Advocate, Vellore
89977 Answers
2492 Consultations

No, it is 18 years.

Koshal Kumar Vatsa
Advocate, Gurgaon
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3 Consultations

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