1. It is prohibited to employ any person before he completes fifteen years of age. 2. The following are required to employ a Juvenile: a. A written consent of his guardian or custodian. b. A certificate of health fitness for the required work issued by the Medical Authority. c. The actual working hours shall not exceed six hours per day, and shall include one or more breaks, the total of which shall not be less than one hour. Such period(s) shall be determined so that the Juvenile shall not work for more than four consecutive hours. d. He shall not work during the period between 7 pm and 7 am. e. He shall not be employed in dangerous or arduous jobs or in jobs that are, by its nature, detrimental to his health, safety or morals, which are determined by a decision issued by the Minister in coordination with the Concerned Authorities. f. He shall not be required to work overtime, or to stay at the workplace after the times fixed for him, or to work on rest days or official holidays. 3. The Executive Regulation of this Decree by law shall define the juvenile employment system, the procedures that the employer must abide by, the jobs in which it is prohibited to employ juveniles and the controls for excluding entities that provide juvenile vocational training and qualification, including charitable, educational and training institutions, from some provisions of this Article.
Interpretation and application must be checked against the official text and current version.
