Effective abolition of child labour: Conventions Nos. 138 and 182 - International Labour Standards

Effective abolition of child labour: Conventions Nos. 138 and 182 - International Labour Standards
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No. 138 Minimum Age Convention, 1973

Minimum ages depending on the type of employment or work:
(1) the minimum age should not be
- less than the age for completing compulsory schooling
- not less than age 15
* For countries whose economic and educational facilities are insufficiently developed, the age can be set initially at 14.

(2) a higher minimum age should be set for hazardous work:
- not less than 18
* The types of employment or work deemed to be hazardous shall be determined by national laws or regulations or by the competent authority.

(3) in the case of light work, the minimum age can be set
- at 13 years
- at 12 years where the economy and educational facilities are insufficiently developed

Full Text of Convention No. 138

No. 182 Worst forms of child labour, 1992

• all forms of slavery or practices similar to slavery, such as the sale and trafficking of children, debt bondage, serfdom and forced or compulsory labour;
  
• forced or compulsory recruitment of children for use in armed conflict;
  
• use of a child for prostitution, production of pornography or pornographic performances;
  
• use, procuring or offering of a child for illicit activities, in particular for the production and trafficking of drugs; and,
  
• work which is likely to harm the health, safety or morals of children.
  

Full Text of Convention No. 182