CS Executive · Setting Up of Business, Industrial and Labour Laws · The Child and Adolescent Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act
Meera, aged 13, helps her father's handloom unit, which is not a hazardous occupation listed in the Schedule, by folding finished cloth. She does this only after school hours and during summer vacation. Under Section 3 of the Act, her work is:
Her work is permitted. Section 3(2)(a) allows a child to help the family or family enterprise, if it is not a hazardous occupation in the Schedule, after school hours or during vacations. A family enterprise is defined to include engagement of other persons, so hired workers do not matter.
- AProhibited, because the unit engages other persons
- BPermitted, as she helps a family enterprise that is non-hazardous, outside school hours or in vacationsCorrect
- CPermitted only if the unit employs no workers at all
- DProhibited, because any child working for a business is barred
Explanation
Section 3(2)(a) exempts a child helping the family or family enterprise, other than hazardous occupations in the Schedule, after school hours or in vacations. The Act defines 'family enterprise' as work performed by family members with the engagement of other persons, so the presence of other workers does not defeat the exception. The first option is therefore wrong.
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