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.
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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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.
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.
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.
You can employ him in your manufacturing unit as the law is that children below 14 years cannot be employed in non-hazardous factories.
As per factories Act it is 14 years of age for any child working in factory under hazardous condition.
Child below age of 14 years cannot be employed in any work, and child between 14 to 18 cannot be employed in hazardous employment.
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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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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.
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.
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
Minimum age of employment in India is 14 years if the environment and factory is engaged in a non hazardous activity.
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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.