禁止使用童工规定-English.doc

Provisions on Prohibition of Child Labour (Adopted at the 63rd Executive Meeting of the State Council on September 18, 2002, promulgated by Decree No. 364 of the State Council of the Peoples Republic of China on October 1, 2002, and effective as of December 1, 2002) Article 1These Provisions are formulated in accordance with the Constitution, the Labour Law and the Law on the Protection of Minors for the purposes of protecting the physical and mental health of minors, promoting the implementation of the system for compulsory education and safeguarding the lawful rights and interests of minors. Article 2No State organs, social organizations, enterprises, institutions, private non-enterprise units, or individual industrial and commercial businesses (hereinafter referred to as employing units) may recruit and hire minors under the age of 16 (the term hiring minors under the age of 16 is hereinafter referred uniformly to as use of child labour). All units and individuals are prohibited from providing job placement service to minors under the age of 16. Minors under the age of 16 are prohibited from starting business and engaging in individual business operation activities. Article 3The parents or guardians of minors under the age of 16 shall protect their physical and mental health, safeguard their rights to compulsory education and shall not permit them to be illegally hired by employing units. Where the parents or guardians of minors under the age of 16 permit them to be illegally hired by employing units, the peoples government of the township (town), the urban subdistrict office, the villagers committee or the residents committee where they are located shall criticize and educate the parents or guardians. Article 4Employing units, when recruiting employees, shall verify the identification card of the recruited; no minors under the age of 16 shall be recruited. The employing units shall properly preserve the documents for recruitment registration and verification. Ar